Re: The Final Word On HTML (fwd)
MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:30:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199609260330.UAA11232@server.livingston.com>
Subject: Re: The Final Word On HTML (fwd)
To: www-html@w3.org
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:30:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
Once upon a time Carl Morris shaped the electrons to say...
>Yea, write doom in basic for god sakes.... or java, or ... be my
>guest... when you fail... then tell me those are not languages...
HTML is not a programming language.
I want to see you write a simple if-else statement in HTML. Hell, ANY
statement that consitutes a logical function.
HTML is a Markup Language, that's it. Stop trying to use broken logic to
claim it is something else. HTML does *NOTHING* programatically. It marks
up content to give *clues* about how to display things. The browser is
the program, not the HTML. Again, claiming HTML is a programming language
is the same as claiming the field delimiters in a database are a programming
language.
-MZ
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