From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 8 10:44:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB5037B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:44:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B930E43F3F for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:44:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1045161877.201bc8@mired.org) Received: (qmail 34626 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2003 18:44:37 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 8 Feb 2003 18:44:37 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15941.20500.925676.52788@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:44:36 -0600 To: Bill Moran Cc: northern snowfall , chat@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages In-Reply-To: <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com> References: <200302072309.AA423166622@altima.net> <15940.38588.692767.171995@guru.mired.org> <3E44980B.20607@ameritech.net> <15940.39707.55965.640089@guru.mired.org> <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.69 (Count Fleet) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com>, Bill Moran typed: > [Redirected to chat, becuase ... well, you know] Thank you. > > How about HTML, XML and WML? > I'm surprised that you consider these "languages". I lump then in the > catagory of "data formats". I've even seen some people call them > "protocols" as they resemble that more than a language. It says they are languages right in the name - markup languages. I don't consider them programming languages, though. It's possible to define a programming language in XML - I know, I've programmed in one. Given that, it's hard not to consider them as languages. > > Seriously, this is just idle speculation until the OP bothers to tell > > us what he intends to use the knowledge for. > It's odd that we haven't heard from him since the first post. Someone > else speculated that he was trying to start a long-winded conversation, > and I suspect that may be the case. Not that I mind, but it doesn't > belong on questions@. That someone else was me. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message