From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 8 19:29: 1 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 25A7B37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD7843FAF for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:28:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h193UGT5075649; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 22:30:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E45CAE7.9020102@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 22:28:39 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: northern snowfall Cc: Mike Meyer , chat@freebsd.org, matrix@altima.net Subject: Re: languages 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> <3E45A4D4.1080702@potentialtech.com> <3E45A960.9090903@ameritech.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 northern snowfall wrote: >> OK, I'll give you XML, but despite the name, I don't really consider >> HTML a "language". > > Its still a language. *shrug* > A language is defined as any stream of mnemonics that can be interpreted > lexically. A binary stream is a language in the scope of its mnemonics: 1 > and 0. Well, I don't know where you got that definition, but both Merriam-Webster and foldoc agree with you enough that I'll have to bow out and admit that you, Gary, and Mike are right. Even if I don't like it ;) > I'm sure many "civilized" individuals didn't consider the relevance > of the Navaho language until it helped us win a war. Well, this is even further off-topic and has more to do with how big of assholes people have been all through history, and less to do with the official classification of whether or not something is a computer language or not. -- 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