alice · 11 answers · 6mo
Programming languages have functional purposes. HTML, as a markup language doesn’t really “do” anything in the sense that a programming language does. HTML contains no programming logic. It doesn’t have common conditional statements such as If/Else. It can’t evaluate expressions or do any math. It doesn’t handle events or carry out tasks. You can’t declare variables and you can’t write functions. It doesn’t modify or manipulate data in any way. HTML can’t take input and produce output. Think of it this way: you can’t compute the sum of 2 + 2 in HTML; that’s not what it’s for. This is because HTML is not a programming language.
𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐉𝐀 agrees⍮𝐇𝐓𝐌𝐋 is a 𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕜-𝕦𝕡 language. It's meant 002 structure content— 𝗉𝖺𝗋𝖺𝗀𝗋𝖺𝗉𝗁𝗌， 𝗁𝖾𝖺𝖽𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗌， 𝗅𝗂𝗌𝗍𝗌， 𝗅𝗂𝗇𝗄𝗌， 𝗂𝗆𝖺𝗀𝖾𝗌, && 𝗌𝗈 𝗈𝗇．
It doesn't run 𝖺𝗇𝗒 𝓁ℴ𝑔𝒾𝒸, nor does it handle ⒸⓄⓂⓅⓁⒺⓍ Ṏᑬ⁅ᖇᾀtḭṎṈຮ. It's the skeleton of a 𝗐𝖾𝖻𝗌𝗂𝗍𝖾, 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 giving it structure && shape, without 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝓁ℴ𝑔𝒾𝒸 inside it.
You wouldn't use 𝐇𝐓𝐌𝐋 to compute the sum of 2+2, вєɕαυѕє that's asking a 𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒏 002 do 𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕤, which it's not 𝓂ℯ𝒶𝓃𝓉 002 do! ೖ(⑅σ̑ᴗσ̑)ೖ
