• Ethalis@jlai.lu
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    11 days ago

    It’s basically gambling on the nerdiness of the question’s writer. Do they think HTML is a programming language? Do they know that people think it’s a programming language and trying to trap them? Do they know it’s not a programming language but also know most people would think it is one and so are using the common, loose definition of a programming language in order not to trap people?

    My brain would melt

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      Mine wouldn’t.

      It is a quiz, they know what they are talking about if they put the question in. And if they don’t, you get to call out the quiz master for being wrong.

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        11 days ago

        But I’d rather have the million dollars than the satisfaction of calling out the show for being wrong.

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          I would challenge the question right there and demand an expert counsel to explain why HyperTextMarkupLanguage is classified as a programming language when it’s not even Turing complete. It’s a markup language. Security would have to drag me, I’d die on the specificity hill.