I'm not sure we can call your parent comment pedantic. They're just being correct. Is it pedantic to say that fish is not a fruit? It's just correct to do so.

I'm not sure we can call your parent comment pedantic. They're just being correct. Is it pedantic to say that fish is not a fruit? It's just correct to do so. If anything, it is the act of stretching the definition of "programming language" so much that it includes HTML as a programming language that we should call pedantic.