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by sxp 532 days ago
> Because HTML ... lacks features like ... Turing-completeness, it’s often dismissed as not a programming language.

This is the core reason why HTML isn't considered a programming language. It's not designed to be Turing-complete which is a key aspect of programming languages.

That being said, HTML+CSS is unintentionally Turing-complete: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-co...