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

[wildstar <wildstar128@hotmail.com>]

"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in
news:hLpIa.20648$0%1.18055@fe09.atl2.webusenet.com: 

> I happen to agree with you 100% HTML is a computer language.
> 
> I go further and say it is a computer programming language.
> 
> My point is in pointing out not what people know of HTML but what
> people don't know about programming.  Programming has been around for
> hundreds of years.  The concept of programming helped to create
> computers.  It amazes me how people seem to think that programming
> follows computers.  That to be programming it must be X, they believe
> they know X so they know what programming is.  Programming is not
> nearly as narrow as some people would like to make it.


Fine, I like you to say that to a programmer and instructor/professor who 
has a Doctorates in Programming. Geez, you would say that coded tags in a 
word processor document is a programming language. Geez, the tags there has 
nothing to do with creating programs so no HTML has nothing to do with 
creating programs.

Scripts are used to give a website a more program like feel.