From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 8 18:44:44 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 C569737B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:44:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1359243FA3 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:44:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown[12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2003020902444200100g22bpe>; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 02:44:42 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h192hA5F077195; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:43:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h192h5Yd077192; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:43:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Bill Moran Cc: chat@freebsd.org 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> <3E45A4D4.1080702@potentialtech.com> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 08 Feb 2003 18:43:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3E45A4D4.1080702@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Bill Moran writes: > OK, I'll give you XML, but despite the name, I don't really consider > HTML a "language". XML and HTML are both languages in which you may tell the computer what to do. Of course, that could also be said about object code which is seldom thought of as a language, and even data which is used to control the computer. The latter doesn't seem like language, and I can see how you might want to classify HTML as data. I wonder if it's possible to distinguish between language and data, generally; two things we are so used to consider different because of their distinct definitions in the context of CPU design where code and data are handled separately. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message