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

["Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com>]

"Ojala Pasi 'Albert'" <albert@pikkukorppi.cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> 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
> -- 
> /It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster
to
>  our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't
destroy
>  us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for
>  visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things./ -- Lestat

A program is:
"7. An instruction sequence in programmed instruction."

Sound like HTML to me.  Are you trying to say that HTML code is not a
sequence of instructions for the client (browser)?