No, HTML is not a computer programming language. This may ruffle the feathers of web developers and graphic designers who take pride in the webpages they have built. Nevertheless, HTML is not a ...

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language. Because HTML looks easy and lacks features like formal conditional logic and ...

Learn what factors and trends may affect the usefulness of programming languages for web applications in the future, and what languages stand out in these aspects. Skip to main content LinkedIn ...

Tim Carmody has a great appreciation of HTML in Wired magazine: HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me. HTML is somehow simultaneously paper and the printing press for the electronic age.

Their flexibility and ease of use made them a popular type of programming language in their own right, and languages like JavaScript became important with the rise of the web. There were people ...