From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 8 16:46:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB06237B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 16:46:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9203043FAF for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 16:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h190lpT5075567; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:47:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E45A4D4.1080702@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 19:46:12 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: northern snowfall , chat@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Meyer wrote: > In <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com>, Bill Moran typed: >>>How about HTML, XML and WML? >> >>I'm surprised that you consider these "languages". I lump then in the >>catagory of "data formats". I've even seen some people call them >>"protocols" as they resemble that more than a language. > > It says they are languages right in the name - markup languages. I > don't consider them programming languages, though. It's possible to > define a programming language in XML - I know, I've programmed in > one. Given that, it's hard not to consider them as languages. OK, I'll give you XML, but despite the name, I don't really consider HTML a "language". >>>Seriously, this is just idle speculation until the OP bothers to tell >>>us what he intends to use the knowledge for. >> >>It's odd that we haven't heard from him since the first post. Someone >>else speculated that he was trying to start a long-winded conversation, >>and I suspect that may be the case. Not that I mind, but it doesn't >>belong on questions@. > > That someone else was me. Oh. Well, there you go. -- 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