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"I don't know what "kind" of language you'd call CSS, though?" - at a pinch "style description language" would do it.

ocodo
– ocodo

2010-12-20 00:00:21 +00:00
Commented Dec 20, 2010 at 0:00
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@acidzombie24: What does the "L" in "HTML" stand for?

Dean Harding
– Dean Harding

2010-12-20 05:33:36 +00:00
Commented Dec 20, 2010 at 5:33
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If it has syntax and semantics, then it's pretty hard to claim it's not a language. HTML and CSS are both languages by these criteria (as are English, Esperanto, Klingon, and arguably UML). None of them are "programming" languages, though.

Zach
– Zach

2010-12-20 08:02:20 +00:00
Commented Dec 20, 2010 at 8:02
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The engineers and doctors would be right, though – even if for completely different reasons. Software engineering may become an engineering disciplin but it isn’t one yet, it’s much too immature for that. We’re still in a very early, experimental stadium of SE. As for chiropractics … systematic studies have pretty much shown that chiropractic is ineffective, and the alleged underlying mechanism is scientific nonsense that directly contradicts what we know of biology.

Konrad Rudolph
– Konrad Rudolph

2010-12-20 11:11:37 +00:00
Commented Dec 20, 2010 at 11:11
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@Dean Harding - Hyper Text Markup Legos?

VirtuosiMedia
– VirtuosiMedia

2011-08-12 06:04:10 +00:00
Commented Aug 12, 2011 at 6:04

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```
like so
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```python
def function(foo):
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indent code by 4 spaces
backtick escapes `like _so_`
quote by placing > at start of line
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