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Re:Why Johnny can't program (2002) by RussellDussel on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @08:17PM (#10343354)
HTML is a programming language?

Makes me think there's a very grey area between declarative programming languages and just plain data. If writing HTML is considered programming, does that make a draftsman drawing up building plans a programmer?

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Re:Why Johnny can't program (2002) by kruczek on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @04:25AM (#10344816)
It isn't. HTML is not Turing-complete. It is a markup language, which describes structured data, but does not describe any dynamics of that data.
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