Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

[albert@pikkukorppi.cs.tut.fi (Ojala Pasi 'Albert')]

In article <_A6Ia.2780$J52.205@fe02.atl2.webusenet.com>,
Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:
>We obviously are talking about two different things.  You are misusing the
>term computer programming language.  HTML is a computer programming
>language, it is not a computational language.

HTML is not a programming language. HTML is a typesetting language.

>A person can be an HTML programmer producing HTML programs.

A person can call himself an HTML programmer. That does not make
HTML a programming language.

> They are limited programs

HTML pages are not programs. HTML is not a programming language.

A program is:
6  A set of coded instructions that enables a machine, especially a
   computer, to perform a desired sequence of operations.

HTML does not provide operations, HTML does not provide a sequence,
HTML only provides hints at how to display the page.

>Also remember not all comptational languages are computer programming
>languages.

You can't calculate anything in HTML. HTML documents do not contain
internal states that you can modify or act upon. And when you have no
internal state, there is no sequence of operations.

-Pasi
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