If we write HTML that has no content just the head title body and metadata with script and style elements to external style and script is it really a hypertext markup language at that point?
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The idea of calling any programming language a language has always bothered me as a language professor.
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Replying to @sarahblarose
HTML and CSS are declarative interpreted markup languages. They are not programming languages according do the vast majority of computer scientists however some people can and do argue that they are except for the fact that HTML on its own would not be Turing complete.

Apr 29, 2022 · 2:57 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I didn’t mean to imply that. But I have the same difficulty in any case.
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Well of course most of what is linguistics and semantics is based in context and so if your context is not the application of specific theories then of course it could confuse anyone especially an educator so I do understand. These are different fields then General language