At least one major researcher studying programming (and how people learn to program) would agree with you! Check out Alan Blackwell's "What is programming" pap

At least one major researcher studying programming (and how people learn to program) would agree with you! Check out Alan Blackwell's "What is programming" paper from 2002. In it, he argues that we should not be asking "is writing html programming", because that question comes from an older (past overdue for revision) mental model of what programming is all about.