Re: A82: Re:HTML etc., etc.


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Re: A82: Re:HTML etc., etc.




see the inside!

In a message dated 98-03-26 19:21:00 EST, you write:

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>  
<snip Kurai's post and reply>
>  
>  Someone else wrote:
>  >No HTML is not a programming language. :)  Even though its HyperText
>  >Markup Language, its still just symbols for the layout of things on 
>  >the
>  >screen.  No variables, no loops, etc.
>  
>  Yes, and although you don't I do call it a programming language.  HTML is
>  a language specified by
>   'compile-on-demand' which is like JavaScript, VBscript, and one

also known as an "interpreted" language (like ti-basic)

>  interesing UN*X Language called Perl.
>   (I adore that language)
>  Perl is very close to C, but is compile-on-demand and I can let no one
>  tell me that it's not a language.

but Perl is very different from HTML, because you can have loops and create
dynamic pages very easily.  I like Perl, too

>  Anyways, HTML is compiled and shown by the browser. (That's what Netscape
>  adds)
>  
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yeah

~Adamman