Had a heated argument on whether HTML’s a fuckin programming language or not and he claims to have 8 years experience...

Fuck bro, that dense? Everyone knows its a fuckin markup language

Hyper text programming language. Seems legit

@steaksauce THATS WHAT I’VE BEEN TELLING HIM... god dammit...

But you can use that <script/>-tag to embed code that modifies the behaviour of the page.

If he never put his code in separate js-files he might think so.

@YouAreAPIRate he probably doesn't know about thatbatg 😄

Wait...he thinks HTML is a programming language?

I almost peed my pants laughing.

@steaksauce that's my only explanation, otherwise he's an idiot beyond words for not knowing simple things with 8 years of experience.

Hey!! Don't be bratty... He's got 8 years experience on HTML programming language!

He must have sick skills on those static pages!!

Me: Okay Mr. Know-it-all, if HTML is a "Programming Language", how would I transform that data right there.

Him: <marquee>[data]</marquee>

It was once static text, and I transformed it into moving text.

Me:

@JMoodyFWD don't forget css animations

@YouAreAPIRate I was just using a scenario that seems like it would be his way of thinking.

Coincidentally, my brain now hurts...

Turns out he's some PHP master mind

There was a guy who made an image editor in excel and a Turing complete machine in PowerPoint... Just give a nerd enough time...

@seraphimsystems technically, with enough css classes, animations etc... this could be possible

I once had a "Professional WordPress Developer" ask me how to install WordPress and how to install plugins.

@Nivlagx god damn it😂

@Nivlagx how did he get a professional then? Reading the wikipedia article? Or writing a blog post with information from a discussion he happened to overhear?

@YouAreAPIRate No idea, but from what I heard they usually just edited posts and style sheets

@dotPy I challenge the person to implement mergesort in HTML only(No JS). Tell him that you could do that with any programming language so it should be easy.

What characteristics does programming language have that a markup language doesn’t?

Data Typing
Decision Control Structures
Loop Constructs
Functions
Device Interrupts
Mathematical Operations
Memory Allocation and Manipulation
Error Handling

@DogBarq markup tends to be a representation of data while programming language manipulate those data, in this case its HTML, where I can consider this to be true only because the addition of JavaScript with the script tag, but HTML itself is not a programming language

https://youtu.be/4A2mWqLUpzw

*cough*

Ha -ha - everybody knows html is just markup - unlike microsoft powerpoint, which is turing complete

Actually had a teacher say this as well
https://devrant.com/rants/829638/...

@steaksauce
I think you're on to something.

If we want to be cheeky... we CAN technically do onclick="code" (even though thats JS) and stuff....... and we technically have an output element... so if you squint at it long and hard enough it might start to resemble a programming language 😁

@arekxv true, but html it self is not a programming language, js is

@rEaL-jAsE true, which is a subset of programming language