Posted by dorayme on 12/27/07 08:16

In article <DVIcj.19818$6V3.2705@trnddc08>,
charles cashion <tennis-fan@dunjas.com> wrote:

> John Hosking wrote:
> > charles cashion wrote:
> >> I will refrain from repeating the whole message.
> >
> > Cool. But then you go and quote bits from old unrelated posts (without
> > any citation) so the space savings are negated.
> >
> >> John Hosking wrote:
> >> J> A what?
> >> Would you be less irritated if I said "SEGMENT"?
> >
> > Only a bit. I was actually trying to point out that HTML isn't a
> > programming language.
>
> I have re-read my original post. I called my program an
> html program. In our shop, we write "assembly language
> programs" and "C programs" and "html programs" and under
> dire circumstances, "machine language programs". Would
> it would be better if I said, "program written in html",
> "program written in assembly language", etc.?
>

I don't think so. HTML language is not really a programming one.
It is more a special way of annotating material that a program
like that of a web browser can use as an input to do things that
its program is programmed to do.

>
> I have an agreement with MS. I will not tell them how
> to run their business and they will not tell me how to
> run my business

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A schnorrer (a Jewish beggar) knocks loudly on the front door of
a millionaire's apartment at two o'clock in the morning. No
answer. He knocks again. Still no answer. He keeps knocking,
until after half an hour the angry millionaire comes down and
opens his door.

"Can I have sixpence, please?" asks the schnorrer.

"What do you think you're doing waking me up in the middle of the
night, just for sixpence!"

"Listen," replies the schnorrer, "do me a favour. I won't tell
you how to run your business, don't you tell me how to run mine!"
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Now what was your original problem? O yes, I recall and I think
it fair to say that Jukka Korpela has answered it all rather
well.

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dorayme

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