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

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

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> In article <Xns939F742A514DCwildstar128hotmailco@216.168.3.44>,
> wildstar  <wildstar128@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in news:jGdIa.14004$nx5.10251
> >@fe05.atl2.webusenet.com:
> >> Nowhere in your improper definition of programming does it require an
> >> internal state and as for the sequence of operations that is exactly
what
> >> HTML code is.
> >
> >Your definition of a program is inaccurate. Whoever wrote that definition
> >gave a raw and very bland definition. HTML is a document
layout/formatting
> >script. HTML is more a script language then a real programming language.
> >HTML is for formatting the layout of a web-document. More powerful script
> >languages are used to do mathematics.
>
> Even that gives too much credit to HTML...it's not a layout/formatting
> language.  It's a markup language (that's the "M" in "HTML").  Document
> layout is best left to CSS.  You mark paragraph headings, tables, lists,
> text to be emphasized, etc. with HTML, but you use CSS to suggest to the
> browser that this block of text goes here and that block of text goes
there,
> certain types of headings get a different font/color/etc., or whatever.
>
> Your point that HTML is not a programming language and that a chunk of
HTML
> is not a program is correct enough.  (The logical extension from this is
> that there's no such thing as an "HTML programmer," which makes you wonder
> what types of people clueless HR weenies think they're going to get when
> they put out want-ads for HTML "programmers.")

So far you agree on the simple fact that HTML is a computer language, as far
as programming is concerned please post a reference to your definition of
programming.

As far as hiring HTML programmers I agree with you it would be stupid to
hire someone who's only claim to fame is they can program in HTML.  What is
hired is a web programmer that includes HTML experience.  The question is
who would hire a web programmer that does not know how to program in HTML?

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