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Discussion on: So, how many of you respect CSS as a programming language?

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Alex Merced

I people are nitpicky about the word programming, cause CSS is definitely a language and a very important one.

HTML and CSS may be better characterized as Markup Language like Markdown (Languages that "markup" or describe/manipulate content)

Kinda like Pug, EJS, Mustache can be called Templating Languages

Or TOML, YAML are also MarkUp Languages that are used more for configuration files.

They have a syntax, they communicate things, they are a language.

I think people are just sensitive about the word programming.

At the end of the day, it's fairly meaningless. All these things are important technologies that take time to master and effective use of them is important.