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Re:HTML is object code by darshan on Sunday August 02, 2009 @06:56AM (#737300)
Yes, of course. But it was clearly meant as an analogy.

The elements of good coding style that apply when writing a program in C don't necessarily apply to a compiler when it compiles a higher level language down to C.

Similarly, the best practices for writing HTML by hand don't necessarily apply to a program that generates HTML from a higher level abstraction.

Re:HTML is object code by baddox on Sunday August 02, 2009 @11:10AM (#737500)
By then end of the article, I was convinced the "source code vs. object code" wasn't an analogy, but a sincere claim.