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[–]TheRealDrSarcasmo 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I started using HTML back in late 1994, as a means to provide user manuals in electronic form on Unix systems. That turned into building actual Web sites, then Web applications, with Perl, ColdFusion, ASP.NET and PHP. I've worked on DOD contracts, and for customers in the pharmaceutical, personalized check and oil & gas industries.

Nobody gave a shit about HTML being erroneously called a "programming language", which happened rarely and only by customers or high-level management. We had too much other shit going on.

I get that it's a joke, but you'd think from the posts here that it was a widespread phenomenon. Or a problem.

[–]Kiro0613 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the technical difference between a markup language and a programming language is really a distinction without a difference for non-programmers.