Discussion on: What makes HTML a “markup language” and not a “programming language?“

Depends on your definition of programming language.

I've notice that people who go against HTML being programming language tend to focus on these points:

• The words "markup language" are in the name.
• You cannot express logic with it.
• It was designed to "just describe" things.
• It doesn't communicate with an operating system directly.

I've also notice that a lot of those people are just trying to come up with an excuse to say HTML is not "worthy" of them. After a while they start saying a bunch of nonsense, so it's hard for me to take them seriously.