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I love it when I have to scream at a computer (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

SQL is turing complete

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So is PowerPoint

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So is Magic: The Gathering

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a magic the gathering programmer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So is Tex. And, yet, I still don't put it under the "programming languages I know" section on my resume. Probably because it's not a programming language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try it. Maybe you won't need a resume anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's important to keep an up to date resume, even if you're employed. That's a little life pro tip for you kids out there, with your iphones and your tik toks and your Fortnite dances and your existential malaise brought about by encroaching climate disaster and advanced technoindustrial capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What section would you put it under? It isn't clear to me where it would fit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Where you put it is not my problem.

The general census is that latex actually is an example of programming languages sharing semantics with non programming languages and not being intend as a programming language.

since you linked to wikipedia:

The domain of the language is also worth consideration. Markup languages like XML, HTML, or troff, which define structured data, are not usually considered programming languages.[12][13][14] Programming languages may, however, share the syntax with markup languages if a computational semantics is defined. XSLT, for example, is a Turing complete language entirely using XML syntax.[15][16][17] Moreover, LaTeX, which is mostly used for structuring documents, also contains a Turing complete subset.[18][19]

Programming language

Sometimes even non Turing complete languages are considered a programming language but Turing completeness usually is the criteria agreed upon:

The majority of practical programming languages are Turing complete,[5] and all Turing complete languages can implement the same set of algorithms. ANSI/ISO SQL-92 and Charity are examples of languages that are not Turing complete, yet are often called programming languages.[6][7] However, some authors restrict the term "programming language" to Turing complete languages.[1][8]