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by brodo 260 days ago
If HTML is a programming language, why not SVG? If SVG is a programming language, why not PNG? Is your image viewer just an interpreter executing PNG code? Maybe being a programming language is a spectrum...
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1718627440 260 days ago
Yes, if you go down this road then the equivalence of code and data means that everything is a programming language.
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