Date: 08 Feb 2003 18:43:04 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: languages Message-ID: <wq8ywqb2dj.ywq@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3E45A4D4.1080702@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>
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Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> 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
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