A Systematic Review of HTML’s Unfitness to Be Considered a Programming Language

Posted by professor_panic on Saturday October 17, 2020 @03:08PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@cole_kraten/a-systematic-review-of-htmls-unfitness-to-be-considered-a-programming-language-95c09eff47d7

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Re:A Systematic Review of HTML’s Unfitness to Be Considered ... by lioeters on Sunday October 18, 2020 @11:40PM (#24823137)

> It is necessary for a system to display the property of being turing complete in order to be defined as a programming language.

There are programming languages that are explicitly not Turing complete. I'm not familiar with any of them, but an example is BlooP, where recursion is not permitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlooP_and_FlooP

> If you disagree, you can fight me on it.

I don't think anyone would argue that HTML is a programming language - so you might be fighting shadows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language

However, there are endless variations of template languages based on HTML, that arguably cross over into programming, mixing presentation and logic.

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Re:A Systematic Review of HTML’s Unfitness to Be Considered ... by Tomte on Saturday October 17, 2020 @03:24PM (#24812450)

God, is that article pretentious.

The points made can be made — and have been made hundreds of times before — with much less condescension.

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