OMG (was Re: opening a text document to show a .txt file through a browser link)

[Sam Hughes]

"Nico Schuyt" <nschuyt at hotmail.com> wrote in
news:3e0f0bce$0$30032$1b62eedf at news.euronet.nl: 

> Sam Hughes wrote:
>> Making Web sites is _not_ programming.  Programming happens when you
>> give a list of instructions that are to be executed.  Making web
>> sites involves using markup to describe text and images.  Web sites
>> do not give browsers instructions, they give browsers information.  A
>> <p> tag doesn't say "Render this like a paragraph and add the default
>> margin between it and other paragraphs," it says "This here is a
>> paragraph."
> 
> Disagree with that. A HTML page is a set of command lines. When sent
> to the interpreter, the browser, the result is shown on the screen.

There's a large, but stupid thread about this.  HTML is HTML.  Don't worry 
about whether you consider it a set of "commands" (which it isn't; you're 
WRONG!  muahahaha!) or markup.

You people sure are inane.