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I was thinking about the word "language", as in programming language. And then I was thinking about HTML and XML. These two are also called languages, but are they really?
I think to qualify as a language, something has to have procedural statements, not only declarative statements. It would be like a human language having only nouns but no verbs. It wouldn't be much of a language.
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It's a way of transferring information from one place to another.
Even pictures tell thousands of words without being language.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: And then I was thinking about HTML and XML. These two are also called languages, but are they really?
No, they are simply text/data Markup.
It was IBM in the 1970's that started appending the suffix 'language' on GML which became SGML which then became HTML.
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So we can blame IBM, then!
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Yes. Blame IBM for everything!   
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I'm in the process of relearning how to play bridge, I used to play rubber bridge many years ago, and the bidding conventions are just like a language, you bid to convey information!
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I think it's a question of context. In certain contexts to call them a language is a non sequitur but in a lower level of context they fit as in a medium to transmit data. They don't qualify as a medium to compose a computer program.
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Yes I see what you mean. A language conveys information.
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They are not languages. They are types of markup. CSS is not a language, although I think it gets a little bit closer, it has conditional statements
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What does that mean? 
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Quote: Darmok and Jalad on the ocean
Tamarian language[^]
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I see. It must be hard to talk about anything specific in that language.![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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It's probably OK for them, but outsiders stand no chance!
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They have syntax, they have grammar, they have punctuation, and they have semantics.
They're languages.
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Wow, that looks like a good channel. Subscribed!
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They are not programming languages, just like Java and VB. 
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Functional versus procedural programming?
"Markup" (of any form) can invoke a host of functions much like a macro as it is encountered by the interpreter; so I hesitate to call it "static" (as contrasted with a "active" language).
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It's all in the distinction between 'language' and 'programming language'.
HTML and XML are languages alright, just not programming languages.
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HTML and XML are a "protocols"
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Hold on! I have to disagree with that. HTTP is a protocol, not HTML.
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You are right. The L at the end stands for the language.
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When you have your HTML element and it contains onclick='doThatThing()' - isn't it doing something. Never mind that it's calling, perhaps, javaScript. It's calling it and is thus doing something.
(Not that I care which way the debate falls).
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I got my hands on a video and VLC is rendering it as 2 views side by side going on at the same time. 
modified 19-Apr-19 17:49pm.
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