At 07:26 2009-08-13, "Ricardo Aráoz" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Ted Roche wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Gene Wirchenko<[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> At 08:38 2009-08-11, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mea culpa, but not language as in 'programming language'!
> >> How would you differentiate the two?
> >>
> >> Fair warning: I am taking a course in the theory of computation.
> > Well, then, you really ought to know already, shouldn't you? :)
> >
> > I'd take a swipe at it: a markup language (XML, HTML) is a syntax and
> > grammar for describing the metadata that dictates the structure and
> > representation of data. optionally contained in a document. In
> > contrast, a programming language provides instructions for an
> > interpreter/compiler to execute against said data.
> >
>Or maybe : a markup describes a desired result whereas a programming
>language describes a series of actions (though that would put SQL into
>the markup camp).
I was thinking along those lines, too.
There is a difference between the
languages, but what exactly it is is not
obvious. I have heard a difference claimed by those who want to dump on HTML.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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