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Re:HTML Is a Programming Language. Fight Me by lolinder on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:34PM (#42657784)
> The definition of programming is: "creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something"

I know a lot of Haskell programmers who would take issue with the idea that programming requires a sequence of instructions.

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Re:HTML Is a Programming Language. Fight Me by xigoi on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:20PM (#42661977)
A Haskell program is still a sequence of instructions, they’re just composed using the IO monad instead of being written directly.
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