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And 8 in 10 Americans think HTML is a programming language.
And 5 in 10 Americans think you can parse it with regular expressions.
You can parse anything with regex, if you’re willing to give up your soul for it.
Show me the regex for the language L = {a^n b^n | n in N}
I mean...
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I will die on the hill that HTML should be treated like a programming language.
The hyper text markup language programming language?
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.
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.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should!
Yo, dawg, I heard you like HTML, so I put HTML in your HTML so you could HTML while you HTML
Boomer programmer humor
They're wrong too, although less-so.
Also, what about that last American?
The last one knows it's not a programming language and is annoyingly vocal about it.
Mom, look! I'm a statistic!
The last American knows it's a markup language.
Ever heard of HTMX?