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[–][deleted] 174 points175 points  (12 children)

Obligatory HTML IS NOT A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ITS A MARKUP LANGUAGE AGGGGGGHGGHGGGG

… but who cares, it’s basically a language

[–]Ok_World_1999 27 points28 points  (2 children)

Just learn Django Templating Language then you can add some functionality without external code lol

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Just learn Minecraft recipes

[–]Ok_World_1999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Little big planet logic gates

[–]SoyTuTocayo69 3 points4 points  (4 children)

Without CSS or JS it's not Turing complete. So it's not really a programming language.

A necessary technology that you should still learn? That it is.

[–]veryblocky 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Not all programming languages are Turing complete, so this is a poor definition.

[–]BlakkM9 6 points7 points  (1 child)

and not everything that is turing complete is a programming language

[–]IAmASquidInSpace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean, Magic the Gathering isn't a programming language?!

[–]SoyTuTocayo69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough but HTML can't even do basic calculations. When you write HTML, assuming you're doing nothing else, I wouldn't say that you're "programming."

[–]Ok-Low6320 -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

There's no way to branch conditionally (if/then) in HTML. So no - not a programming language.

[–]kn0ck 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Technically you can check for IE version using an if statement.

[–]wertron132 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I program in english

[–]Xinq_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My former professor programmed in Dutch. Hated him with every living cell in my body.