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HTML on its own is not Turing complete, so it’s not a programming language in any practical sense. It’s a markup language.
by munchler 1y ago
HTML on its own is not Turing complete, so it’s not a programming language in any practical sense. It’s a markup language.
- ngruhn 1y agonot sure if that's a good criterion. There are also non Turing complete languages like core SQL or Rocq that definitely feel like programming.
- a96 1y agoThings can and often do feel like other things that they are not.
- gf000 1y agoThere are non-Turing complete programming languages, and there are many things that are Turing complete but have nothing to do with programming (even PowerPoint), so this is neither a required nor sufficient property. I believe a reasonable way to categorize languages as programming or not is simply.. what is it's primary use case. HTML's last two letters tell us exactly that it is not a programming language.