opening a text document to show a .txt file through a browser link

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Mon Dec 30 21:22:56 EST 2002


Nico Schuyt wrote:
> 
> Definition of "Programming language": A vocabulary and set of grammatical
> rules for instructing a computer to perform specific tasks.
> Doesn't say anything about a loop.
> 
> I admit I don't define HTML as a programming language. But it's a matter of
> definition. In a DOS batch file you can't make loops but it comes pretty
> close to programming.

test.bat:

@echo off
:loop
echo Help, I'm stuck in an infinite loop!
goto loop

No matter how one slices it, batch files are *definitely* a programming
language....  a very primitive one, but a language nonetheless.

-Peter



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