Forms Processing

[Hal Duston]

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 10:17, Bradley Miller wrote:
> At 09:58 AM 5/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Sorry to be a stickler but...
> >
> >programming language
> >n.
> >An artificial language used to write instructions that can be translated 
> >into machine language and then executed by a computer.
> 
> There's the catch . . . HTML isn't executed.   A Microsoft Word document 
> isn't executed either, but by that argument, there could be bazillions of 
> "programmers" out there with Word (or HTML) knowledge.  HTML is a markup 
> language -- just like the "good old days" before WYSIWYG word processors.

Yes.  To my point of view for a language to be executable it needs to
have at least one verb.  The closest language to not being a programming
language would probably be IBM MVS JCL which has only one verb "EXEC"
which means "do it".  HTML has no verbs, but only nouns and adjectives.

--
Hal