opening a text document to show a .txt file through a browser link

Cliff Wells clifford.wells at attbi.com
Mon Dec 30 14:40:44 EST 2002


On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 18:10, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Nico Schuyt wrote:
> 
> > Disagree with that. A HTML page is a set of command lines. When sent
> > to the
> > interpreter, the browser, the result is shown on the screen.
> 
> Is applying markup to, say, a Word document (specifying that a paragraph
> goes here, this line should be italicized, this word should be in bold)
> "programming"?  If you call pure HTML writing "programming," then it
> should, but it should be clear that if you agree then we've diluted the
> meaning of the word to uselessness.

And by extension, creating a program by using an IDE to draw dialog
boxes isn't programming either.  Still, it seems odd that a "program" is
the end result ;)

-- 
Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at attbi.com>





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