• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
    25·
    24 days ago

    The name itself doesn’t determine the meaning.

    The name in this case is defined by the meaning if you will. Programming languages are used to write programs. A HTML file is much closer to a PDF than to what can be considered a program.

    Also fun fact python is named after the comedy group Monty Python rather than the snake.

    • modeler@lemmy.world
      29·
      24 days ago

      Actually, PDF is a turing complete programming language.

      PDF is a simplification and wrapper around the computer language PostScript - a PostScript or PDF doc literally runs on the printer or computer and outputs the rasterisation of the thing you want to print.

      PostScript is language based around a stack. You can define functions (which may be fully recursive) that run on the stack.

      Here’s a small example:

      /ANGLE {
   newpath
   100 0 moveto
   0 0 lineto
   100 50 lineto
   stroke
} def

10 setlinewidth
0 setlinejoin
100 200 translate
ANGLE

1 setlinejoin
0 70 translate
ANGLE

2 setlinejoin
0 70 translate
ANGLE

      As such, PDF that’s actually similar to Python, and HTML is closer to something like a JSON or XML document.

      Note however that HTML can contain Javscript or WASM programs, but these are embedded rather than features of HTML.