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Originally Posted by DaWei
Your response is very cogent, Darkhack. No where did I intimate that HTML didn't require skill. Web page design is very difficult. Nowhere did I say anyone lacked "programming knowledge." Here is a dead quote:
I stand by that. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course. There are those who maintain that the earth is flat and the moon is green cheese. In many countries, they are entitled to do so.
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I know you didn't say web design was easy DaWei. I was just pointing that out in general. Sorry if it seemed as though it was directed at you only. I sometimes come across people in forums that say HTML is easy. Especially in topics such as these. It really puts me off because "Hello World!" in C is easier than a complex page in HTML. The "HTML is easy" statement is just something that puts me off, and I try to correct them and state my opinion on it whenever possible.
I still agree thought that HTML is a good way to get started in programming. The basics are easy to understand and you can get some nice pages without a lot of work. Even if you only spend a couple weeks with HTML it gets the user in the habbit of understanding how a programming language kind of works. They learn about syntax and how it needs to be accurate for the computer to understand what is being done. HTML was the first computer language that I learned before anything else, and I think this is the case with most people as well.
As for the other discussion that was brought up. TECHNICALLY.... a real programming language is one in which it is compiled directly to binary (c/c++, fortran, ect). Java, Python, PHP and many others are TECHNICALLY scripting languages. I put 'technically' in caps because I want people to understand that under normal circumstances I would use the term
"programming language" as an umbrella word to describe them. I honestly don't care to get that technical and most people will know what you mean. Keep in mind, that I am primarily a PHP and C# programmer with only a small amount of expierence with C++. I may be a bit bias but I think most developers would agree with me on using the term as an umbrella word. I personally don't wish to argue over something that insignificant though.