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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

And 8 in 10 Americans think HTML is a programming language.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And 5 in 10 Americans think you can parse it with regular expressions.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I will die on the hill that HTML should be treated like a programming language.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    https://html-lang.org/

    I mean, technically it’s the other 2 out of 10 that are wrong…🙃

    HTML, the programming language, is a practical, turing-complete[1], stack-based programming language based on HTML, the markup language. It uses elements defined in HTML, the markup language, in order to do computations.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They're wrong too, although less-so.

    Also, what about that last American?

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