Counterpoint: A declarative language made and used to program a browser is still a programming language, regardless of its name, heritage, or differences from imperative languages.

Even wikipedia hints at this with a hello world program.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hypertext markup Language. Yeah this sorta reminds me of why I stopped following r/ProgrammerHumour on the old site - too many cheap potshots at Perl, PHP and HTML, as if they weren't fantastic tools that powered the creation of the internet we have today. Kids, man, SMH

[–] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Markup language ≠ programming language.
Markups produce layout, not code.
Typesetting (the Gutenberg way) produce books, not run the looms.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

Well l take your point, but here I took 'programming language' in the colloquial sense to mean 'language used for programming' whereas you seem to have read it as 'turing-complete language'; neither is fully justifiable since there's ambiguity, but given that it's a crossword I think that's fine and all part of the game.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

Can it manipulate data, does it have logic? Those are the only factors, it doesn't even need to be Turing complete.

You can write a composition and play it through the browser, but that doesn't mean your notes are a programming language.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

Define "program"