What does your sleep paralysis demon ask you?

Yes. Markup-Languages are a subset of Programming-Languages. Turing completness doesn’t matter as things like magic the gathering and habbo hotel are Turing complete

I am markdown and latex programmer.

Idk it just feels wrong.

idk css feels just as frustrating

If you can write a moderately complex math equation in tex on the first try, you’re a programmer in my book.

I feel like programming language produces programs, and makeup languages formatted documents.

I wouldn’t consider a formatted document to be a program, so I don’t consider a markup language to be a programming language.

Doesn’t make it less valuable, though

ACKSHUALLY … markup languages do not produce a formatted document. They define semantic elements of the document. The formatting is done by the compiler (whatever it is in the individual context) based on styles defined by a styling language.

That’s true! Although many people use makeup to do styling using the default styles… Which is… Not great.

But regardless I think my point still holds, it’s not providing instructions for a machine, it’s the data the instructions act on. But the difference between data and instructions is a blurry one

‘This markup language isn’t even as capable as Habbo Hotel, but it counts anyway because I just called it a programming language.’

There is a literal hierarchy of syntaxes which are recognized by different categories of machine. Programs require a Turing machine. Anything lesser - in a subset like pushdown automata or finite-state machines - doesn’t need a proper computer. So it’s not a program.

So Habbo Hotel is a programming language.

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