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   Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 16:00:15 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

   Hot take: "HTML is a programming language" is gatekeeping in effect, if not in intent.

   That is, something need not be a programming language to be a the subject of highly useful and important technical skills — viewing all of computing through the lens of programming languages is inherently limiting.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 02:49:04 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     It's perfectly reasonable, I posit, to have a taxonomy in which HTML is absolutely a markup language, but is not a programming language, and in which different *mutually beneficial skills* are relevant for each kind of language. Computing isn't just programming. Hell, software development isn't just programming!