I agree, of course it is a programming language. There is not really any counter argument, only convention. The rest is just an inability to understand either English or computers. If someone is not capable of realizing that HTML is used to give instructions then they really need to go off and learn something before engaging in the "discussion" (it is not really a discussion).
To program simply means to provide instructions. It is there staring at you if one takes the time to look at a dictionary (which I am guessing people are failing to do). A program is a set of instructions. HTML is a language used to give instructions... discussion over - it is by definition: a programming language.
Yes, of course mark-up can be used to provide instructions! Is XML a programming language? NO... but the similarity is simply in the way it looks. You are labeling a bunch of values in XML. You are giving instructions with HTML. If I want a load of text to be a heading I "instruct" the browser to do that with h1 or h2 etc...
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I agree, of course it is a programming language. There is not really any counter argument, only convention. The rest is just an inability to understand either English or computers. If someone is not capable of realizing that HTML is used to give instructions then they really need to go off and learn something before engaging in the "discussion" (it is not really a discussion).
To program simply means to provide instructions. It is there staring at you if one takes the time to look at a dictionary (which I am guessing people are failing to do). A program is a set of instructions. HTML is a language used to give instructions... discussion over - it is by definition: a programming language.
Yes, of course mark-up can be used to provide instructions! Is XML a programming language? NO... but the similarity is simply in the way it looks. You are labeling a bunch of values in XML. You are giving instructions with HTML. If I want a load of text to be a heading I "instruct" the browser to do that with h1 or h2 etc...