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Re:Code Your Own Holiday Card with Codecademy Code Cards by nightpool on Monday December 24, 2012 @07:02PM (#4964552)
HTML/CSS are markup languages, not programming languages. One is a way of defining what something is, the other is a way of defining what something does. Think Markdown vs. Python, for a more dramatic example.
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Re:Code Your Own Holiday Card with Codecademy Code Cards by tomasien on Monday December 24, 2012 @07:34PM (#4964624)
I understand that, but they're written with code. Maybe I'm wrong but that pretty clearly makes the writing of them "coding".
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Re:Code Your Own Holiday Card with Codecademy Code Cards by codewright on Monday December 24, 2012 @09:04PM (#4964799)
You're taking a word too literally and conflating it with something it doesn't mean.

HTML/CSS is not coding/programming.

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Re:Code Your Own Holiday Card with Codecademy Code Cards by tomasien on Monday December 24, 2012 @10:30PM (#4964969)
I'm amenable to that argument, I can't find an alternate definition that disputes my use of the word and there are dozens of uses of the word "coding" to mean writing html/css, so I don't know what alternate definition I'm supposed to be using.
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Re:Code Your Own Holiday Card with Codecademy Code Cards by codewright on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @05:03AM (#4965665)
Popular use doesn't define reality.
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Re:Code Your Own Holiday Card with Codecademy Code Cards by amasad on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @01:41PM (#4966691)
omg HN people always the same argument with you. HTML/CSS is coding and if you want me to take it an extra step and call it CSS programming I will, because it turns out it's turing complete. BOOM! http://jsfiddle.net/Camilo/eQyBa/
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