Re: The Final Word On HTML from david.boreham@octel.com on 1996-09-25 (www-html@w3.org from September 1996)

From: <david.boreham@octel.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:01:33 +0100
To: <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <c=GB%a=_%p=OCTEL%l=CORNUS-960925170133Z-1252@mercury.cssd.octel.com>

On Wednesday, September 25, Jason O'Brien wrote:

>language.   HTML's solitary purpose is to exist as a standard programming
language 

Well, certainly you can write "Hello world." with HTML, so that makes it
a programming language.

But, wait a minute, how do you make it calculate a fibonaci sequence ?
Or play Towers of Hanoi ? 

Hmm. Perhaps it isn't a programming language after all ?

:)

Received on Wednesday, 25 September 1996 13:02:34 UTC