Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 19:46:12 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net>, chat@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages Message-ID: <3E45A4D4.1080702@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> <15941.20500.925676.52788@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > In <3E4521B8.5000504@potentialtech.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> typed: >>>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. OK, I'll give you XML, but despite the name, I don't really consider HTML a "language". >>>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. Oh. Well, there you go. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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