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Html is not a programming language.
Far as I can tell html5 is not a programming language either.
One of course must first define a definition for "programming" language and the following is good enough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language#Definitions[^]
Note that it specifically says html (presumably not html5) is not a programming language.
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If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming[^] you will see that HTML is specifically included as a declarative programming language as a Domain-specific language. It all depends on how you want to look at it. YOu will note that the article you specify actually says "not generally considered programming languages," which implies that some people consider them such. And really what is the significant difference between HTML and HTML5. I suspect that most people that would consider HTML not a programming language would also consider HTML5 not a programming language.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: you will see that HTML is specifically included as a declarative programming language as a Domain-specific language.
Interesting. However that still not not fit under the general umbrella of "programming language".
Clifford Nelson wrote: which implies that some people consider them such
Quite possible. I am also sure that some people presume that computers are the work of the devil. That however has nothing to do with most peoples general understanding of computers.
Clifford Nelson wrote: And really what is the significant difference between HTML and HTML5.
I know there are differences. I also know that by itself HTML5 is not Turing complete either.
Clifford Nelson wrote: I suspect that most people that would consider HTML not a programming language would also consider HTML5 not a programming language.
I can only not that I have seen many people state specifically that HTML is not a programming language. Myself I wasn't clear about HTML5 but so far nothing I have seen suggests HTML5 is.
I should also note that I don't consider regexes to be a programming language either (as per your link). However I have been using perl for about 20 years and it is a programming language and one which makes extensive use of regexes.
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The only reason i would be using HTML5 to build an application is for cross compatibility (pretty much like a Java application) otherwise i prefer to stick with the included guns in the OS.
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I don't know as I agree with the author of this article 100%. He sounds very knowledgable but I think his approach or knowledge of HTML5 development lacks.
to really understand and implement HTML5 application you have to rethink things. take for example the latest facebook app for the iphone.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/facebook-iphone-app-update_n_1826137.html[^]
in essence this is an HTML5 app but when they developed it they really thought hard about its development, deployment and use as an application.
I hate to say it but as intelligent as the article sounds I would have to put this article in the category of all the other HTML and javascript haters out there.
as if the facebook, twitter and message boards weren't enough - blogged
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Oracle has released a new version of Java to address the serious security flaws that attackers have been exploiting all week.
More[^]
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I like how this type of exploit is a big deal with Java, but the same types of exploits that are commonly fixed in Windows Updates are apparently not a big deal.
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New photos from the Curiosity Mars rover show the rugged foothills of Mount Sharp, with towering hills, broad canyons, and an intriguing geological transition marking a sudden shift in martian history.
Curiosity Reader?[^]
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I am of the opinion that this is not IT news.
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here[^]?
1,000,001 Apple Devices UDIDs linking to their users and their
APNS tokens.
the original file contained around 12,000,000 devices. we decided a million would be
enough to release.
we trimmed out other personal data as, full names, cell numbers, addresses,
zipcodes, etc.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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To those of us who have been around for a while, namespaces have been part of the landscape. One could even say that they have been defining the large-scale features of the landscape in question. However, something happened fairly recently that I think makes this venerable structure obsolete. Before I explain this development and why it’s a superior concept to namespaces, let me recapitulate what namespaces are and why they’ve been so good to us over the years... So.Whats.The.Problem(Here)?
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Namespaces are dead! Long live Namespaces!
Be The Noise
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I think he's really just saying not to make namespaces more than one level deep.
Personally, I like the way it works in .net, and I think what he's tallking about would be rather limiting.
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Abel remarked that he attributed his profound knowledge of mathematics to the fact that he read the masters, rather than the pupils. Are you better off reading the Masters or the pupils? This of course depends on the masters and the pupil and other factors. Who's got the SparkNotes?
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Windows Server 2012 probably won’t have the adoption lag in the enterprise that Windows 8 is bound to face. That's because, aside from the Metro GUI, Server 2012’s biggest changes are in substance rather than style, building upon what the company delivered with Windows Server 2008 Release 2 three years ago. In particular, Server 2012 takes two management features Server 2008 R2 admins will be familiar with—Server Manager and PowerShell—and expands on them considerably. Will you choose the familiar GUI or the Server Core command line?
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From the masters -- masters are pupils too.
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A long, long time ago when I was mastering Linux I created three cheat sheets about GNU fileutils, GNU shellutils and GNU textutils. I'd keep them in front of me at all times, and I quickly memorized which commands did what. A few days ago I remembered about them and decided to publish them on my blog but it turns out fileutils, shellutils and textutils were merged in GNU coreutils in 2003; so I thought why not create a new cheat sheet that lists all the utilities in coreutils along with their short descriptions. This cheat sheet is really useful if you're learning Linux.
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With Windows Server 2012 set to launch this week, I’ve been evaluating how or if I’ll be rolling out this product in my home office. In my case, this choice involves picking Windows Server 2012 Essentials -- basically, the replacement for Small Business Server (and some other products) -- or Windows 8 as a “home server” of sorts. This has become a curiously painful decision. Frankly, we’ve reached the point where even a super-simple Server might simply be too much.
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It was summer of 1972 when Atari released its first arcade game – Pong. It was revolutionary entertainment, launching Atari to quickly become the definitive gaming platform of its era, selling 30 million Atari 2600 consoles. Most modern, successful video game franchises are still inspired by Atari’s original creative concepts. Today with Atari and the help of our friend Grant Skinner we are launching Atari Arcade, continuing to showcase what’s possible on the web when you couple a modern browser like IE10 with a modern OS and the power of HTML5. It also works great in IE9 on a Windows 7 PC, or any other modern browser.
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Despite years of pressure from government antitrust actions and open-source upstarts like Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser still commands more than 50 per cent of the global desktop browser market. While Microsoft remains an obvious choice for many consumers, there's some indication that Microsoft's venerable browser may be in trouble with a potentially more important demographic: developers. Can Windows 8 and IE 10 reverse this trend?
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There is a growing controversy over the business of selling zero-day exploits, that is bugs in software that can be exploited by malware. I say controversy because it is perfectly legal in the U.S. and many other jurisdictions for someone to discover a zero-day, not report it to the software vendor, and then sell information about it to third parties. And there is a rising chorus of calls for government to intervene in this practice. It occurred to me that software vendors are ignoring an existing legal tool that would let them crack down on these practices. Gentlemen, I have a plan. It's called blackmail.
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Smartphone owners carry around more processing power in their pocket than a 1970s-era supercomputer, but most of the time it languishes unused. That could now change thanks to a plan to combine the unused potential of groups of nearby phones, creating clusters capable of everything from weather modelling to Wi-Fi cracking. Is that a computing cluster in your pocket, or are you just waiting for a call?
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Last night, robots shut down the live broadcast of one of science fiction's most prestigious award ceremonies. No, you're not reading a science fiction story. In the middle of the annual Hugo Awards event at Worldcon, which thousands of people tuned into via video streaming service Ustream, the feed cut off — just as Neil Gaiman was giving an acceptance speech for his Doctor Who script, "The Doctor's Wife." Where Gaiman's face had been were the words, "Worldcon banned due to copyright infringement." Come quietly or there will be... trouble.
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Software makers should face legal action if sloppy coding leads to hackers emptying users’ bank accounts, argues a Cambridge academic.
Side-note: I believe that the developer in this context should be understood as the company creating the program. Not the individual writing the code.
modified 4-Sep-12 9:51am.
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