Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 22:28:39 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages Message-ID: <3E45CAE7.9020102@potentialtech.com> References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net> <15940.38588.692767.171995@guru.mired.org> <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> <15940.39707.55965.640089@guru.mired.org> <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com> <15941.20500.925676.52788@guru.mired.org> <3E45A4D4.1080702@potentialtech.com> <3E45A960.9090903@ameritech.net>
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northern snowfall wrote: >> OK, I'll give you XML, but despite the name, I don't really consider >> HTML a "language". > > Its still a language. *shrug* > A language is defined as any stream of mnemonics that can be interpreted > lexically. A binary stream is a language in the scope of its mnemonics: 1 > and 0. Well, I don't know where you got that definition, but both Merriam-Webster and foldoc agree with you enough that I'll have to bow out and admit that you, Gary, and Mike are right. Even if I don't like it ;) > I'm sure many "civilized" individuals didn't consider the relevance > of the Navaho language until it helped us win a war. Well, this is even further off-topic and has more to do with how big of assholes people have been all through history, and less to do with the official classification of whether or not something is a computer language or not. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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