*Angry programmers noise getting louder and louder*

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mox@lemmy.sdf.org · 16 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Counterpoint: A declarative language made and used to program a browser is still a programming language, regardless of its name, heritage, or differences from imperative languages.

Even wikipedia hints at this with a hello world program.

silasmariner@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Hypertext markup Language. Yeah this sorta reminds me of why I stopped following r/ProgrammerHumour on the old site - too many cheap potshots at Perl, PHP and HTML, as if they weren't fantastic tools that powered the creation of the internet we have today. Kids, man, SMH

amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Markup language ≠ programming language.
Markups produce layout, not code.
Typesetting (the Gutenberg way) produce books, not run the looms.

silasmariner@programming.dev · 0 pts · 2y

Well l take your point, but here I took 'programming language' in the colloquial sense to mean 'language used for programming' whereas you seem to have read it as 'turing-complete language'; neither is fully justifiable since there's ambiguity, but given that it's a crossword I think that's fine and all part of the game.

Shareni@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y

Can it manipulate data, does it have logic? Those are the only factors, it doesn't even need to be Turing complete.

You can write a composition and play it through the browser, but that doesn't mean your notes are a programming language.

tatterdemalion@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

Define "program"

alt1804@lemmynsfw.com · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What app/website is this? I haven’t found a good crossword app yet

JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

Not OP but I think it looks like Shortyz on Android, which I used for a long time, but I recently switched to Forkyz (an unofficial fork of Shortyz) because it gets more active support. You can get it on F-droid or its current repo on Gitlab.

WanakaTree@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

Yeah everyone knows HTML is an STD

BaardFigur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
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xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Yea, HTML isn't the web programming language... XHTML is.

nintendiator@feddit.cl · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)
Kakaofruchttafel@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y

This

JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
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Adalast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I have had to stop telling people that HTML is not a programming language. I crushed too many souls that way.