this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] bauve@jlai.lu 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Nothing, but it's not a programming language

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

But the meme says developer, not programmer.. wouldn't that be ok then?

[–] thiccdiccnicc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

The first step to being a developer seems to be learning how to put down other devs :(

[–] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] shuzuko@midwest.social 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's a markup language. In the simplest explanation, a programming language describes a process (what does the thing do) while a markup language describes a structure (how is the thing supposed to be displayed). There's more to it than that, but someone else can get into deeper if they want, it's beyond me lol

[–] BeefPiano@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Diogenes throws a Ruby on Rails model over the fence and shouts “Behold a markup language!”

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

a markup language describes a structure (how is the thing supposed to be displayed)

A markup language does not define how something is to be displayed, that's what a styling language is for (usually CSS). A markup language semantically defines what certain parts of the created document are.

[–] shuzuko@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

Lol that's fair, but since those words in that combination barely even make sense to me I tried to dumb it down more and ended up being wrong 😂

I'm the idiot who searches stack for code and copies and pastes it into the project so no one should listen to me anyway.

[–] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

I knew it was a markup language, but didn't know the diff between the two since I'm not a programmer. Thanks

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Psshaw. I programmed my Myspace page with that language: checkmate.