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> ... drawing a distinction between the two in clear-cut cases (such as HTML versus C). If anything, declarative languages (or markup languages if you prefer)

by troels 17y ago

> ... drawing a distinction between the two in clear-cut cases (such as HTML versus C). If anything, declarative languages (or markup languages if you prefer) are a sub-category of programming languages. Imperative languages are another sub-category.

scott_s 17y ago
To me, a "programming language" is a language that allows me to express computations. Markup don't need any concept of computation, so I don't consider them programming languages.