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I don't understand why HTML is in there? I can obviously understand the scripting languages you can embed in HTML being there, but they're listed separately an
by anfractuosity 9y ago
I don't understand why HTML is in there? I can obviously understand the scripting languages you can embed in HTML being there, but they're listed separately anyway.
- rwj 9y agoThis is a common complaint. It's not mentioned in the interactive chart, but the print article explains their reasoning.
- poggi 9y agoThey have an explanation for that in the full blog post http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2017-top-programming-languages http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2017-top-pro...: "(This is a great moment for us to reiterate our response to the complaint of some in years past of “HTML isn’t a programming language, it’s just markup.” At Spectrum, we have a very pragmatic view about what is, and isn’t, a recognizable programming language. HTML is used by coders to instruct computers to do things, so we include it. We don’t insist on, for example, Turing completeness as a threshold for inclusion—and to get really nitpicky, as user Jonny Lin pointed out last year, HTML has grown so complex that when combined with CSS, it is now Turing complete, albeit with a little prodding and requiring an appreciation of cellular automata.)"
- anfractuosity 9y agoCheers, I hadn't seen that.
- shuntress 9y ago>used by coders to instruct computers to do things I get what they are going for and I don't really disagree but by this logic chrome/firefox .exe should probably be the top most widespread programming languages.