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echo: rberrypi
to: MAYAYANA
from: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
date: 2019-02-25 15:03:00
subject: Re: C is not a low level

On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:25:26 -0500
"Mayayana"  wrote:

>    It's an interesting situation. More and more, things
> that people call "apps" are little more than webpages,
> while webpages are often bigger than a medium-sized
> software program -- bloated with 2+ MB of script. So
> it's not as clear cut as it used to be. And I can see
> how you might call js programming code. But then, why
> not HTML? It's code. It's interpreted to produce a

 JavaScript is (ignoring resource limits) a Turing complete
language, HTML is not.

> useful result. CSS? Of course. AutoIt? Apple script?

 CSS no (it is only Turing complete with a human being in the loop),
AutoIt never heard of it, AppleScript yes.

 Read about Turing Completeness, then answer the questions yourself.

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