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

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:33:55 -0500, Randy McLaughlin wrote:
>> HTML doesn't describe computation - it's a markup language for web pages;
>> what exactly did you mean?  JavaScript?  ASP?
> 
> HTML is programming, just as CP/M's sub files, dos bat files , IBM's old
> JCL, Unix script files, etc.

Randy... HTML is as much programming as English text is programming. HTML
does not describe computation - it is a markup language for web pages.

> There are plenty of every day tasks that are programs.  A program is a
> defined "automatic" task.

How do you write an automatic task in HTML? (Hint: you can't :-)