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Marco Colonna

I learned HTML / CSS on my own (studying guides and tutorials online) to write the whole code, I don't feel special for this, I know that they are two simple codes compared to those used to create programs, indeed I think that anyone if they want to can (except if with serious brain problems, which I have never had in my life ...).

the code was for my Worpress site of my blog (link in profile, I'm not doing self-promotion, more than a blog project, it was a project to learn code); and it's a serious thing, because I studied like any other student, I applied myself and the result is more than excellent and functional for what I wanted to achieve, that is that the site worked (and works well) like any other site (around there they are sites developed by entire teams that have fewer functions and are much slower, because they are clogged with statistics collection and more).

then I read all these discussions and memes on the Internet about HTML is not a programming language ... I only know that what I wanted to do I did, and that while I was studying HTML I didn't go looking for bar discussions (why completely useless for programmation). this article here and some comments are really interesting and highlight a lot of valid reasoning (others obviously not). my opinion on subject exposed in this post is this:

is programming language:

  • any code designed to modify the operation of a machine
  • any code suitable for the interaction between machine code and program
  • any code designed to modify the operation of a program
  • any code to create a program