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Your definition is overly broad and makes everything a programming language, at which point the term isn't useful anymore.
by ctenb 1y ago
Your definition is overly broad and makes everything a programming language, at which point the term isn't useful anymore.
- ngruhn 1y agoBut Turing completeness is also too broad. Otherwise Power point animations and Conways game of life are programming languages.
- ashirviskas 1y agoI will take this over HTML
- alkonaut 1y agoYes. So a criteria that is below Turing Completeness but which wouldn't make markdown a programming language. Shouldn't be _that_ hard to find such criteria. E.g. "Has some form of logic/flow control". Can perform computation/"execute". etc.
- gf000 1y agoI mean, CS is famously bad at exact definitions [1]. Why should we have one for what a PL is? Just do what humans have been doing for millenia, how is it commonly used. A tomato is a vegetable from a culinary perspective, and HTML is not a PL based on its use case and its literal name. [1] what is a low or high level language? Strongly typed language?