From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,b72ad086ccc949b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40CEE4ED.3070101@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACM References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:01:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.23.116 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1087300887 209.165.23.116 (Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:01:27 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 05:01:27 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1501 Date: 2004-06-15T12:01:27+00:00 List-Id: 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? > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================