Reply to: Meeja Topic Du Jour

[Sysman]

Aye.

Real Programmers used to program down to the bare metal.

Probably in octal.

In my first IT job they had an old clankety clank machine that they programmed straight in executable code.

I never touched it myself.

The hardware engineer was in his sixties and did a lot of mechanical fixing.

[alluvial]

Aye.

Real Programmers used to program down to the bare metal.

Probably in octal.

Nah, the real men progammed the computer by building it from scratch using valves and binary. (Was that the original hardcoding?)

[VectraMan]

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for t'internet

HTML5 is three languages, none of them very good, bodged together to form a kind of hideous mutation not even a mother could love.

[SupremeSpod]

I am sure Turing said "assembler. kids of today don't know how easy they have it".

Was that before, after or while he was biting the pillow - apple, Shirley?

[BrilloPad]

Now that is a language, kids of today don't know how easy they have it...

I am sure Turing said "assembler. kids of today don't know how easy they have it".

[alluvial]

You can't beat handcrafted assembler.

Now that is a language, kids of today don't know how easy they have it...

[Zoiderman]

I thought it was just a subset of SGML, it's a markup language not a programming language

The article headline just says computer language, which it is. Didn't read the article, so don't know if they are making claims inside

[amcdonald]

I think the clue is in the name, no?

I thought it was just a subset of SGML, it's a markup language not a programming language

[NotAllThere]

Report"The language – which lies behind millions of websites – is one of the first an aspiring computer programmer must learn"

Remove a 'k' from 'Brooks-Pollock', and you can make an anagram describing this sentence - starts with poor...

I noticed that.

[Zoiderman]

Technically yes, but realistically not:

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for t'internet

[Platypus]

I think the clue is in the name, no?

Well, yes and no. It's not a programming language.

[Notascooby]

Is HTML a language these days? I always thought it was just a formatting tool.

I think the clue is in the name, no?

[alluvial]

Is HTML a language these days? I always thought it was just a formatting tool.

[Spacecadet]

I wouldn't have thought that 600 views was all that much to write home about.

They could probably get that by spamming twitter

[Sysman]

HTML Song, filmed by a group of self-confessed geeks to explain Hypertext Mark-up Language, got more than 600 views on its first day online.

I wouldn't have thought that 600 views was all that much to write home about.

The language – which lies behind millions of websites – is one of the first an aspiring computer programmer must learn.