Posted by Mary Pegg on 04/04/07 22:22

K.J.Williams wrote:

> See my interjections to your comments below..

Good, that's where we expect to find them.

>> > HTML is a pseudo-programming langauge
>>
>> HTML is not a programming language at all -- it's a data format, much
>> like JPEG or MP3 is.
>
> I disagree.
>
> HTML is an interpreted langauge that has a simple method of handling

Sheesh, I've been reading some weird stuff in this thread. HTML is not
a data format, it's not a programming language, it's a Markup Language.
Though if you've got to explain what that is to someone, calling it a
"data format" is probably a very good place to start.

> yeah but the designer of Java intended the langauge to be portable to
> any machine that supports it and run it from a JVM, but its running
> from a second compiled form called byte code which depends on the JVM
> to run it.

I was pretty sure that the original whitepaper [1] mentioned bytecode
and JVMs and yes, it does:
http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/Neutral.doc1.html#402

> Theres none for Windows XP, and secondly the compiler by gcc is has

Cygwin?

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing
>
> No scheme is fool proof for any long term plan

Something I can agree with you about.

>> --

Shpxvat Google Groups. Toby's got a perfickly good sig-sep, but Google
ignores it. Google's "do no evil" mantra is starting to lose out to
a Microsoft-style "WE make the standards, you peasant" attitude.

[1] Can I just say that I read it when it came out? Can I?

--
"Checking identity papers is a complete waste of time. If anyone can
be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".

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