HTML Programming Language Parody

HTML: The Programming Language A Programming Language Documentation Tests html.js (download) t-shirt LICENSE Introduction HTML, the programming language, is a practical, Turing-complete[1], stack-based programming language based on HTML, the markup language. It uses elements defined in HTML, the markup language, in order to do computations. To give you a sense of what HTML, the programming language, looks like, below is a sample program that prints the values from 1 to 10 to standard out (console.log) A Sample HTML Program <data value="1"></data> <!-- push 1 onto the stack --> <output id="loop"></output> <!-- print the top of the stack --> <data value="1"></data> <!-- push 1 onto the stack --> <dt></dt> <!-- add 1 --> <dt></dt> <!-- dup new value --> <data value="11"></data> <!-- push 11 to compare --> <small></small> <!-- test new value is small --> <i> <!-- if bigger than zero pushed --> <a href="#loop"></a> <!-- then jump back to the loop --> </i>

A parody programming-language webpage presents HTML as a Turing-complete, stack-based language and shows a sample program written entirely with HTML-like tags. The joke is that ordinary markup elements are humorously treated as instructions for arithmetic, comparison, output, and looping, poking fun at overly elaborate web programming and the idea of HTML being a real programming language.

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