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by empressplay 532 days ago
> Because HTML looks easy and lacks features like formal conditional logic and Turing-completeness, it’s often dismissed as not a programming language.

Uh, yes? It's _not_ a programming language, it's a markup language. It's kind of in the name.
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koolala 532 days ago
It's a declarative programming language. Saying it's "in the name" is a meme, it was named that before it supported scripting.
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yjftsjthsd-h 532 days ago
And when it added scripting, it did so by adding an actual programming language.
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koolala 532 days ago
Does being Turing Complete enable you to have a programming language ins8de a programming language?
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yjftsjthsd-h 531 days ago
They're orthogonal; you can add

* turing in non-turing (javascript on html)

* non-turing in turing (ebpf on c)

* turing in turing (lua on c)

* non-turing in non-turing (raw html in a markdown document)

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koolala 531 days ago
Also HTML in JS in HTML
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