• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    How is Hyper Text Markup Language not a programming language? Now JavaScript and CSS are arcane rituals, but html is well behaved.

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      How is it a programming language? It’s a markup language. There’s no logic, variables or any way to manipulate data.

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        It’s right there in the name, but then there’s CFML, which is unpopular, but it definitely features logic, variables, and data manipulation.

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          CFML walks the line, but it exists to make HTML in a programmatic way, and be very approachable to non-programmers. It’s not really a markup language, it’s a programming language disguised as markup.