• silasmariner@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    Hypertext markup Language. Yeah this sorta reminds me of why I stopped following r/ProgrammerHumour on the old site - too many cheap potshots at Perl, PHP and HTML, as if they weren’t fantastic tools that powered the creation of the internet we have today. Kids, man, SMH

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      8 months ago

      Markup language ≠ programming language.
      Markups produce layout, not code.
      Typesetting (the Gutenberg way) produce books, not run the looms.

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        8 months ago

        Well l take your point, but here I took ‘programming language’ in the colloquial sense to mean ‘language used for programming’ whereas you seem to have read it as ‘turing-complete language’; neither is fully justifiable since there’s ambiguity, but given that it’s a crossword I think that’s fine and all part of the game.