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@netikras actually...
http://defmacro.org/ramblings/...
(It's a great read btw not just for xml but lisp too) -
@RememberMe :) Good one. Although using this to claim that XML is a programming language is the same as claiming English poetry is programming language as well : https://wikiwand.com/en/... . Or that a client requesting a fewature is talking to you in programming language: https://docs.cucumber.io/gherkin/...
a program code is a structure. If you like - jam it into xml, like this guy. Squeeze it into JSON. YAML. HTML (hush, I know. I'm mentioning it just for the sake of buzzword). Or be a sane person and use a syntax that's close to both: machine code and English. Like most useful programming languages do. -
@netikras well yeah
I would say it's perfectly reasonable that those are programming languages given a suitable execution machine and the ability to follow certain axioms.
Not all languages have to actually be useful 🤷♂️ I would say these are just fun ways to look at things :)
It's actually kinda hilarious if you make an xml-machine that accepts xml in lisp-like fashion and then use it to build something like a http server.
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