Is HTML code?

[Empyrean]

I think it is sad that on an enlightened board like [H], the popular misconception is winning the vote.

 

[Suprnova04]

I think it's just a harmless ploy (using polls) to get more people to weigh in on the topic.

 

[HHunt]

I think it is sad that on an enlightened board like [H], the popular misconception is winning the vote.

"HTML is code"?
It is code, for several meanings of the word. It's not a programming language, though.

 

[HJB417]

is english a language?

 

[HHunt]

is english a language?

There is a two-way C to english - converter out there, just to blur the borders even further.
(It only handles it's own very limited subset of english, though.)

 

[mikeblas]

is english a language?

Quoted for orthogonality.

 

[HorsePunchKid]

I think it is sad that on an enlightened board like [H], the popular misconception is winning the vote.

How enlightened the denizens are has nothing to do with it. It's a poorly worded vote, given what the apparent intent was.

 

[HorsePunchKid]

There is a two-way C to english - converter out there, just to blur the borders even further.
(It only handles it's own very limited subset of english, though.)

Calling it "two-way" is extremely misleading. It converts from C into an extremely simplified subset of English, and it can convert that tiny, tiny subset of English back into C. The subset of English that the converter deals with is so small that it does not blur the borders at all. I could write a converter between C and vBulletin smilies, but I don't think you'd say it's blurring the borders.

 

[HHunt]

Calling it "two-way" is extremely misleading. It converts from C into an extremely simplified subset of English, and it can convert that tiny, tiny subset of English back into C. The subset of English that the converter deals with is so small that it does not blur the borders at all. I could write a converter between C and vBulletin smilies, but I don't think you'd say it's blurring the borders.

I get your point, and even made it myself, sort of.
Still, it would be possible (though hard) to expand it to accept larger parts of the language. You'd "only" have to handle words and expressions that would come up in describing the actions of a program, so it might be on this side of doable. (For a huge team with interesting hard-/software.)

Another thing is that the script was written to make a point in a discussion on if soure code covered by "free speech"-rights. Even if it only does it's own tiny subset of it, it's still recognisable and understandable english.

 

[pr0pensity]

Of course it is a code. If you haven't learned it, you can't use it.

It is not, however, a programming language.

 

[HorsePunchKid]

Another thing is that the script was written to make a point in a discussion on if soure code covered by "free speech"-rights. Even if it only does it's own tiny subset of it, it's still recognisable and understandable english.

Ah, right! I remember the context now. Back a year or two ago when DeCSS and steganography were getting a lot of press. It did help blur the line that some were wrongfully trying to draw, but it was not a code-vs-programming line. More of a line between a process and a description of a process or something like that.

 

[mikeblas]

Of course it is a code. If you haven't learned it, you can't use it.

That's curious reasoning. Are band saws a code?

 

[Suprnova04]

That's curious reasoning. Are band saws a code?

Hah.. i like that..

 

[pr0pensity]

That's curious reasoning. Are band saws a code?

I don't know what that means.

 

[Minishark]

You can make the distinction that HTML is a markup language and C is a programming language, but at the end of the day, they're still both code.