The guess is based on what? When I observe the world, I come to a different conclusion. I see people including non-programmers talk about HTML as code. I see s

The guess is based on what? When I observe the world, I come to a different conclusion. I see people including non-programmers talk about HTML as code. I see software packages like editors that say they deal with code, and it's not about T-c languages. Encyclopedias and dictionaries record the definition of code very broadly as interpretation of information, not T-c languages specifically.