Re: ACM

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

By most computer-sciency-type definitions of "Programming Language" - 
XML would qualify. It does have a means of describing how data is to be 
organized and manipulated. Especially if one is really thinking of XML 
in the larger sense of including style sheets and such. At minimum it is 
a method of "programming" a DOM or SAX "machine", isn't it? It really 
doesn't take much to make something constitute a "programming language". 
A word processor that can remember keystrokes and replay them is a kind 
of "programming language", isn't it? ;-)

And as for purchasing a "language" - I imagine if you were Microsoft you 
might be able to "purchase" Java from Sun. :-) But they're probably just 
sloppy in their use of English & would really want to know if you plan 
to purchase a translator for a language. I'm sure there would be plenty 
of vendors willing to sell something like that.

MDC

Bj�rn Persson wrote:
> 
> Gah! Yet another fool who thinks XML is a programming language. And how 
> do I purchase a language?
> 


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