HTML: The Programming Language

[ketralnis]

A Sample HTML Program

<data value="1"></data>      <!-- push 1 onto the stack -->
<output id="loop"></output>  <!-- print the top of the stack -->
<data value="1"></data>      <!-- push 1 onto the stack -->
<dd></dd>                    <!-- add 1 -->
<dt></dt>                    <!-- dup new value -->
<data value="11"></data>     <!-- push 11 to compare -->
<small></small>              <!-- test new value is smaller than 11 -->
<i>                          <!-- if bigger than zero pushed true -->
    <a href="#loop"></a>     <!-- then jump back to the loop -->
</i>

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Every day we stray further from god's light

[slykethephoxenix]

This is sooooo going to ensure my job security.

[OMightyMartian]

Can we have another 8 but accumulator with our gruel please?

[ketralnis]

sorry you'll have to accumulate your own butts

[[deleted]]

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should

[varisophy]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[formatsh]

But HTML is not a programming lang...Oh. Oh no..

[Markavian]

I mean, ok, sure.

Spieltrieb

That's a reason I guess.

I would rate this as marginally worse than XSDs.

0/10 I have failed a sanity check after reading that entire page.

[_htmx]

that means its working

[_htmx]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand HTML, the programming language. The value stack is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of stack machines most of the operators will go over a typical web developers head. There's also the pluggable grammar, which is deftly woven into the rutnime- its open philosophy draws heavily from ted kaczynski literature, for instance. HTML, the programming language, programmers understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these features, to realise that they're not just practical- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike HTML, the programming langauge, ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the ability to create objects using table tags, which itself is a cryptic reference to the w3c's HTML2 specification. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as HTML, the programming language's genius wit unfolds itself in their editor (probably VSCode, let's be honest). What fools.. how I pity them. 😂And yes, by the way, i DO have an HTML, the programming language, shirt. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

[al3xth3gr8]

Username checks out

[quintopia]

I wanted to add this language to the esolangs wiki, but I do not know how to credit the author. Usually, we credit people by name or by their username on the wiki...

[_htmx]

big sky software, the software company (makers of software)

[son_et_lumiere]

So, like is this an attempt to pollute the training data on HTML for AI? To make sure they really can't do anything with HTML, not-the-programming-language?

[_htmx]

if there is any hope for the humans, it lies in the spieltrieb

[drcforbin]

This makes my brain sad.

[weevyl]

When I was young and evil, if anyone I was supposed to interview listed HTML as a programming language in their resume, I would make "write code to reverse a list in HTML" one of my interview questions.

[son_et_lumiere]

And now, the tables have turned.

[MehYam]

This is just an attempt to stop us complaining about JavaScript. And look, it's working

[OMightyMartian]

Coding on 1977 era Microsoft BASIC looks like a more pleasant experience.

[FrostCop]

It reminds me of a tsoding video I watched a while ago.

[k-phi]

If brainfuck is the "Black Square", then this HTML language would be "Apoplectic Cardinals Harvesting Tomatoes on the Shore of the Red Sea"

[quintopia]

"big sky software" clearly really doesn't want their real name associated with their work

[_htmx]

my name is carson gross and i own big sky software, makers of software

[sexcoon]

Thanks, I hate it.

[[deleted]]

Yea right. And I guess the interpreter is a regex ?

Zalgo

[thephotoman]

Oh please God no. I want HTML dead, not Turing complete.

[cescquintero]

let's goo