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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

I'm not a programmer so I'm tending towards accepting HTML as a programming language, because it's a language you type in to make the computer do stuff. Is there maybe another example of something that does what HTML does but obviously isn't a programming language?

[–] labsin 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

A PowerPoint, word document or even a text file or picture. There is only a description in the file of what it holds and it's up to the program that reads it, how it will visualize or interpret it.

A word document or PDF would be the closest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To be fair to PDFs, they can contain JavaScript. Blame Adobe for that and their originally-exclusive-to-Acrobat extension for that.

[–] labsin 2 points 9 months ago

A word document can also contain a script, as can html pages. It's why I thought these two were the closest match. Nobody is going to call those programming languages.

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