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

[raj@rijhwani.org (Raj Rijhwani)]

On Thursday, in article <bcrohi$i6o$1@news.cc.tut.fi>
     albert@pikkukorppi.cs.tut.fi "Ojala Pasi 'Albert'" wrote:

> 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.

No, HTML is a context definition language.  The mistake that has been 
made ever since the corporates got hold of it is to try to 

> >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.

On some level it is.  Very rudimentarily.  It provides a sequence 
of instructions and embedded data which instruct the interpreter 
how to treat the data.

> > They are limited programs

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

Repetition does not increase veracity.

> 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.

e.g. <STRONG>...</STRONG>  There is no state difference?  Or tables.  
Nothing but a sequence of state modifiers.

I don't know why you're both arguing over this.
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