• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
    25·
    3 days ago

    The name itself doesn’t determine the meaning.

    The name in this case is defined by the meaning if you will. Programming languages are used to write programs. A HTML file is much closer to a PDF than to what can be considered a program.

    Also fun fact python is named after the comedy group Monty Python rather than the snake.

    • modeler@lemmy.world
      29·
      3 days ago

      Actually, PDF is a turing complete programming language.

      PDF is a simplification and wrapper around the computer language PostScript - a PostScript or PDF doc literally runs on the printer or computer and outputs the rasterisation of the thing you want to print.

      PostScript is language based around a stack. You can define functions (which may be fully recursive) that run on the stack.

      Here’s a small example:

      /ANGLE {
   newpath
   100 0 moveto
   0 0 lineto
   100 50 lineto
   stroke
} def

10 setlinewidth
0 setlinejoin
100 200 translate
ANGLE

1 setlinejoin
0 70 translate
ANGLE

2 setlinejoin
0 70 translate
ANGLE

      As such, PDF that’s actually similar to Python, and HTML is closer to something like a JSON or XML document.

      Note however that HTML can contain Javscript or WASM programs, but these are embedded rather than features of HTML.