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Depends on the interpreter.
It wouldn't be hard to make an interpreter which parses a strict HTML document as if it were code, making HTML Turing complete, and thus a programming language.
("Yeah but it isn't a programming language in the context of a web browser" —That just means all browsers are broken interpreters for the goal of executing HTML code 😂) -
KDSBest7712y@bittersweet plain HTML without CSS or any JS is not turing complete. Or am I missing something?
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@Wizard1997
"Tongue my anus?"
Its weirder with the question mark at the end. Almost like asking someone to pass the salt. -
@Wisecrack stick a vodka bottle up your arse and dance shin chans po boogie woogie.
Death by alcohol, pervert way -
@bittersweet that's basically arguing that we don't know if the sun will rise tomorrow. sure, we don't, but as things have been since always I'd say it will. html has never been used as a programming language, and from the way it looks, I don't think it ever will
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@KDSBest
What I was arguing (semi trolling) is that you *could* consider HTML Turing complete, if you wrote a custom interpreter. An interpreter which wouldn't parse a DOM from the markup, but instead would (for example) treat a div as a function declaration, it's classes as parameters, and it's contents as function body.
I'm always in favor of exotic creative stupidities. So when someone says "HTML is not a programming language" I say "your interpreter is just not trying hard enough".
Someone once told me "Bash is of course not a web development language" which was the start of an MVC framework, view templater and SQL ORM written in bash, nc and awk. Which is a terrible idea. But fun.
You know what I mean
joke/meme