Forms Processing

[Matt G]

...and we wonder why people call us Nerds.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hull" <dphull at insipid.com>
To: "Jeremy Fowler" <JFowler at westrope.com>
Cc: "Dustin Decker" <dustind at moon-lite.com>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:28 AM
Subject: RE: Forms Processing

> On Thu, 8 May 2003, Jeremy Fowler 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.
> >
> > Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth
> > Edition
> > Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
> > Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
> >
> > HTML may not have all the constructs and features of most of today's
> > programming languages. However, considering the above definition, HTML
is an
> > artificial language which contains instructions that is translated into
> > machine language by the web browser to display information on the
screen.
> > Then there is always DHTML which is a Hybrid of HTML mixed with a
> > client-side scripting language of some kind (JavaScript, VBScript,
etc.).
>
> The people who put the American Heritage Dictionary together wouldn't know
a
> programming language if it sat on their faces. HTML is an artificial
language,
> but it's not a programming language, it's a markup language for
constructing
> documents.
>
> I've never heard any literate computer programmer call it a programming
> language. It lacks too many constructs essential to programming languages
> (i.e. looping, variables, conditional expressions, etc.).
>
> --
> Dave Hull
> http://insipid.com
>
> COBOL:
> An exercise in Artificial Inelegance.
>
>
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