Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Mon Dec 30 21:24:22 EST 2002

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"Jukka K. Korpela" wrote:
> 
> "Nico Schuyt" <nschuyt at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > My statement was "A HTML page is a set of command lines. When sent
> > to the interpreter, the browser, the result is shown on the
> > screen." That's not equivalent to "programming language"
> 
> Maybe not. But it's still nonsense. You haven't commented on these
> facts:
> - there are no commands in HTML

> - HTML is not line-structured.

Why would "line-structured" be a requirement?

The language "G", used in the product LabVIEW from National Instruments,
is a graphical language.  It most definitely is not line-structured,
but it is surely a programming language.  A general purpose one, in fact.
One can, for example, write a web server with it.

-Peter

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