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What does your sleep paralysis demon ask you?

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[-] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

programing languages arent use to make programs they are used to program machines which is exactly what u do with html.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

The "program" is the package of instructions that tell the machine what to do. The instructions are written in a programming language.

With a markup language, the markup is the input to a program (like a browser) that tells the machine what to do.

But I think it's not really boolean, it's a sliding scale. Especially with so many programming languages being interpreted or JIT compiled. I think it's less a programming language than many other programming-related things, but more of a programming language than, say, a slideshow.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

they are used to program machines

Which HTML cannot do, because if it could, that would be called a program. That's what the word means.

HTML makes documents. It's a markup language. It's not even Turing-complete accidentally.

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