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

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:35:21 -0500, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
>> There are no verbs in HTML. With HTML it is only possible to specify how
>> the text is to be interpreted by the HTML renderer. It is not possible to
>> "act" in any way - an HTML page is static.
> 
> A basic program:
> 
> 10 PRINT "hello"
>
> I tried it no matter how many time I run it it always acts the same way, it
> just prints hello.  I tried several more programs everytime I ran any
> program it always acted the same way when the input was the same.  I could
> never get any program to not be static.  Every program I ran still had the
> same results no matter how many times I ran them.

So you give one example, and believe that you are able to generalize from
that. To continue your logic, this is a mathematic equality:

1 = 1

Thus, HTML is mathematics:

<html>
<body>
1 = 1
</body>
</html>

In fact, HTML is physics as well:

<html>
<body>
e = mc�
</body>
</html>

... and fine literature:

<html>
<body>
To be or not to be...
</body>
</html>

HTML is even music!

<html>
<head><title>Frankie-boy</title></head>
<body>
Do-be-do-be-do
</body>
</html>

Wonderfull, Randy!! Thanks for enlightening us!