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opening a text document to show a .txt file through a browser link

Nico Schuyt nschuyt at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 30 04:50:49 EST 2002 
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Nico Schuyt wrote:

>> Disagree with that. A HTML page is a set of command lines. When sent
>> to the interpreter, the browser, the result is shown on the screen.

> Is applying markup to, say, a Word document (specifying that a
> paragraph goes here, this line should be italicized, this word should
> be in bold) "programming"?  If you call pure HTML writing
> "programming," then it should, but it should be clear that if you
> agree then we've diluted the meaning of the word to uselessness.

Working with Word is not programming. Word is an application written in a
language like C or something.
But now, write a document in binary code until it shows on the screen like a
complex Word document. Then again tell me that's not programming.
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