What do you think about the people who says that HTML is a programming language? I saw it recently in my TL

I think that they just miss some good reasons for not thinking that.

If in our team it is not clear to anyone I tell them that html is a dialect of xml. Xml is a format of defining data structures like json oder yml. Then I ask if they think that json is a programming language.

For beginners I think it is important to unterstand the difference and most of the time when someone say that html is a programming language it is just because of lack of knowledge.

The problem is the word "program".

Its interpretation in meaning is wildly different in different domains:

https://thefreedictionary.com/progr...

I wonder if we should use the word compute instead for languages that actually compute based upon instructions.

@Demolishun Yep I agree with that. The problem is when they argue that it is as valid an opinion as that it is not a programming language but they can generate bad ideas for newbies

@Rozark I think anyone who works in computing will find out pretty quickly what a language can and cannot do.