What does your sleep paralysis demon ask you?

  • linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    programing languages arent use to make programs they are used to program machines which is exactly what u do with html.

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      5 months ago

      they are used to program machines

      Which HTML cannot do, because if it could, that would be called a program. That’s what the word means.

      HTML makes documents. It’s a markup language. It’s not even Turing-complete accidentally.

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      5 months ago

      The “program” is the package of instructions that tell the machine what to do. The instructions are written in a programming language.

      With a markup language, the markup is the input to a program (like a browser) that tells the machine what to do.

      But I think it’s not really boolean, it’s a sliding scale. Especially with so many programming languages being interpreted or JIT compiled. I think it’s less a programming language than many other programming-related things, but more of a programming language than, say, a slideshow.