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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by anfractuosity on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:32AM (#14820365)
I don't understand why HTML is in there? I can obviously understand the scripting languages you can embed in HTML being there, but they're listed separately anyway.
Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by poggi on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:37AM (#14820409)
They have an explanation for that in the full blog post http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2017-top-pro...:

"(This is a great moment for us to reiterate our response to the complaint of some in years past of “HTML isn’t a programming language, it’s just markup.” At Spectrum, we have a very pragmatic view about what is, and isn’t, a recognizable programming language. HTML is used by coders to instruct computers to do things, so we include it. We don’t insist on, for example, Turing completeness as a threshold for inclusion—and to get really nitpicky, as user Jonny Lin pointed out last year, HTML has grown so complex that when combined with CSS, it is now Turing complete, albeit with a little prodding and requiring an appreciation of cellular automata.)"

Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by shuntress on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:47AM (#14820483)
>used by coders to instruct computers to do things

I get what they are going for and I don't really disagree but by this logic chrome/firefox .exe should probably be the top most widespread programming languages.

Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by anfractuosity on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:38AM (#14820412)
Cheers, I hadn't seen that.
Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by rwj on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:35AM (#14820379)
This is a common complaint. It's not mentioned in the interactive chart, but the print article explains their reasoning.