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Discussion on: ⚡️HTML is not a programming language

 
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David Lorenz • Edited

A tl;dr response to your last comment is: It shows that for a specific reason you want to define the term "being a programmier" differently in what all of my previous companies did or what a big part of literature does.

That's fine and up to you. But it's nothing that makes my blog post wrong/falsy. And this is the crucial point for me here. You were stating your opinion on this with the saying "my post should be removed" which is nothing but toxicness honestly. Not constructive, not fact-based.

Even if you were primarily creating templates with HTML/CSS you wouldn't be downgraded in ANY of the companies I worked with as "not being a programmer" simply because you are on the "programmers track" and again: Because literature uses these terms interchangeably even though HTML clearly is a declarative language. Your carpenter+hammer sample lacks a bit of realism since most definitely you'd call yourself a carpenter if you are starting out as a carpenter even if your knowledge up to this very point is limited to using a hammer.

Those are my final words to it and I still wish you a nice day and I hope that for any future comments also on other people you try to be more constructive and helpful than destructive because this is what especially younger people or tech-newbies will drastically demotivate.

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djchsu11

Your post contributes nothing besides feel-good nonsense. That is why it should be removed.

To anyone reading this - yes, if all you want is to be able to call yourself a programmer in your head, feel free to if all you know is HTML/CSS. While you're at it, take a statistics class and call yourself a machine learning engineer, and take a whittling class and call yourself a carpenter.

If you actually want to get a job as a programmer, I would recommend getting a working knowledge of a programming language, and potentially start by looking at one of the better articles on this site. If all you've written in a programming language is a hello world - then yes, you are a programmer. Keep on with it if it is interesting to you.

And if you, OP, read this comment, then I want you to know that it is not my purpose here to be constructive, helpful, or even agreeable toward you - I only hope to enlighten others that this is not a realistic point of view that you hold.

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David Lorenz

Your post contributes nothing besides feel-good nonsense. That is why it should be removed.

Thanks.