None of these
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Man this question would sink me because of the misnomer that HTML is a programming language.
Don’t worry. They interview you before these shows. If you’re at all tech savvy then they would never ask you this question. They want you to be stumped by the question for legitimate reasons, not to loudly protest that you’ve been cheated by a bad question.
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That’s why it should be “none of the above”. And if there’s a “all of the above”, it must come right before the “none of the above”.
Or address them:
Either* A, B, C; -
How is Hyper Text Markup Language not a programming language? Now JavaScript and CSS are arcane rituals, but html is well behaved.
How is it a programming language? It's a markup language. There's no logic, variables or any way to manipulate data.
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Can someone clarify what the answer should be and what was the answer on the show?
There is a running joke that some people falsely consider HTML a programming language which it is not. So it's D. I didn't watch the show but I assume that's it and the joke is that the audience's majority took alien language
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That’s why it should be “none of the above”. And if there’s a “all of the above”, it must come right before the “none of the above”.
They're not above. One of them is to the left.
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It’s right there in the name: it’s a markup language. Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML.
That's the etymological fallacy. The name itself doesn't determine the meaning. According to that logic, python isn't a programming language either but a snake
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Is Machine Language even a well defined thing? I would think of assembly but I don't know where to draw the line
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It's basically gambling on the nerdiness of the question's writer. Do they think HTML is a programming language? Do they know that people think it's a programming language and trying to trap them? Do they know it's not a programming language but also know most people would think it is one and so are using the common, loose definition of a programming language in order not to trap people?
My brain would melt
Mine wouldn't.
It is a quiz, they know what they are talking about if they put the question in. And if they don't, you get to call out the quiz master for being wrong.
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It’s right there in the name: it’s a markup language. Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML.
There is a difference between “markup language” and “programming language”.
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What about Excel? First reply I got said it has to make programs, right? I can make a Tetris clone in Excel.
We aren't talking about Excel, but about Word.
We do that to explain that HTML is nothing more than to display text in a certain layout, just like a Word document. The only difference is that Word is designed to be printed, while HTML is designed to display on a website.
Also, exclude VBA as well as macros. VBA is a programming language.
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Or address them:
Either* A, B, C;Is only A supposed to be a pointer?
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That's the etymological fallacy. The name itself doesn't determine the meaning. According to that logic, python isn't a programming language either but a snake
Ok, but hear me out. Have you seen most Python code?
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Ok, but hear me out. Have you seen most Python code?
Point taken
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A "Markup Language" to be precise. HyperText Markup Language.
Yea my parties are the best parties, too.
That's the word, it did feel wrong with formatting!
We should party together sometimes!
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Point taken
From Gryffindor and awarded to Slytherin
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How is it a programming language? It's a markup language. There's no logic, variables or any way to manipulate data.
It's right there in the name, but then there's CFML, which is unpopular, but it definitely features logic, variables, and data manipulation.
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That's the etymological fallacy. The name itself doesn't determine the meaning. According to that logic, python isn't a programming language either but a snake
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The name itself doesn't determine the meaning.
The name in this case is defined by the meaning if you will. Programming languages are used to write programs. A HTML file is much closer to a PDF than to what can be considered a program.
Also fun fact python is named after the comedy group Monty Python rather than the snake.
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How is Hyper Text Markup Language not a programming language? Now JavaScript and CSS are arcane rituals, but html is well behaved.
Can you write a program in HTML?
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That's the etymological fallacy. The name itself doesn't determine the meaning. According to that logic, python isn't a programming language either but a snake
Fun fact python was named after Monty python, not the snake.
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The name itself doesn't determine the meaning.
The name in this case is defined by the meaning if you will. Programming languages are used to write programs. A HTML file is much closer to a PDF than to what can be considered a program.
Also fun fact python is named after the comedy group Monty Python rather than the snake.
Actually, PDF is a turing complete programming language.
PDF is a simplification and wrapper around the computer language PostScript - a PostScript or PDF doc literally runs on the printer or computer and outputs the rasterisation of the thing you want to print.
PostScript is language based around a stack. You can define functions (which may be fully recursive) that run on the stack.
Here's a small example:
/ANGLE { newpath 100 0 moveto 0 0 lineto 100 50 lineto stroke } def 10 setlinewidth 0 setlinejoin 100 200 translate ANGLE 1 setlinejoin 0 70 translate ANGLE 2 setlinejoin 0 70 translate ANGLEAs such, PDF that's actually similar to Python, and HTML is closer to something like a JSON or XML document.
Note however that HTML can contain Javscript or WASM programs, but these are embedded rather than features of HTML.
