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by 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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And when it added scripting, it did so by adding an actual programming language.
Does being Turing Complete enable you to have a programming language ins8de a programming language?
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)

Also HTML in JS in HTML