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Heydon Pickering avatar Heydon Pickering

Is HTML A Programming Language?

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 7 March 2022
  • HTML
  • 4 reactions
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https://briefs.video/videos/is-html-a-programming-language/

Heydon released a new Webbed Briefs episode, always entertaining!

In this episode, I ask a question that has never been asked before and has certainly not in any way caused a great number of arguments and nobody has ever been blocked or muted on social media for asking it. Bon appétit.

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