Subject: Re: E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's web writings.
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 06:26:20 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <-q2dnUp54t_BSbTcRVn-oQ@speakeasy.net>
Joe Marshall  <jrm@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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| "Jeff" <jma@nospam.insightbb.com> writes:
| > How can HTML be considered a programming language?
| 
| Consider it a primitive language used to program a display.
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You mean like RUNOFF & Troff & PostScript? Oh, wait, those *are*
programming languages. [Or at least PostScript is. While the former
two have macros, I'm not sure that make them programming languages...]


-Rob

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