[Sigia-L] flogging the dead horse

Joe 10 Enterprises joe at joe10.com
Wed Jul 17 19:41:59 EDT 2002


I'm way late on this thread, so please forgive, but;

Using this rational to say that HTML is the same as programming would 
be like saying two pieces of bread are the same as a sandwich.

/Joe

At 6:10 PM -0400 7/17/02, robert.dornbush at ps.ge.com wrote:

>And furthermore, HTML is not just "logic free" data [text and color
>definition, etc.] it's the code that runs the interactivity [click this
>widget and a menu drops down, click that submit button and Java function
>executes transaction and session data gets stored in Database]...How can you
>say that HTML is NOT programming. Writing it feels like programming, and
>debugging it is certainly the same trail and error analysis process as
>programming...I just don't agree with the distinction.
>

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