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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (6 children)

And 8 in 10 Americans think HTML is a programming language.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And 5 in 10 Americans think you can parse it with regular expressions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can parse anything with regex, if you’re willing to give up your soul for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Show me the regex for the language L = {a^n b^n | n in N}

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I will die on the hill that HTML should be treated like a programming language.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The hyper text markup language programming language?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I absolutely agree, and luckily I think it mostly is treated as a programming language. It's just a technicality that makes for a great joke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://html-lang.org/

I mean, technically it’s the other 2 out of 10 that are wrong…🙃

HTML, the programming language, is a practical, turing-complete[1], stack-based programming language based on HTML, the markup language. It uses elements defined in HTML, the markup language, in order to do computations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

https://html-lang.org/

Yo, dawg, I heard you like HTML, so I put HTML in your HTML so you could HTML while you HTML

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They're wrong too, although less-so.

Also, what about that last American?

[–] activ8r 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The last one knows it's not a programming language and is annoyingly vocal about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Mom, look! I'm a statistic!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The last American knows it's a markup language.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Boomer programmer humor

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