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22 Mar 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #461 – ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God
“I think there’s some technical definition that it is. If you use this certain amalgamation of CSS plus HTML, it actually has, it can be a Turing complete language.”
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- 22 Mar 2025
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…Do we count HTML and CSS as programming languages? I think there’s some technical definition that it is. If you use this certain amalgamation of CSS plus HTML, it actually has, it can be a Turing complete language. But I mean for practical purposes, no. HTML is not a language. For me, yes, the Turing test is a good one, but for those that are just not wanting to be as academic, if I can’t write a function and an if statement, I don’t feel like that’s… If I can’t loop, if, and function, I don’t feel like that’s a good, that’s a programming language. Although modern HTML has a lot of features.…
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