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== Non-programming languages ==

Some of the subcategories just don't belong here. For example, [[HTML]] and [[XHTML]] are document markup languages, not programming languages; [[CSS]] belongs somewhere in this area as well. I hereby propose to create a "Wikipedian doucmentdocument markup users" category into which to move these. And add [[TeX]] and [[LaTeX]] while at it. What about [[RTF]]? Do enough people code in it to be worth it?

Also, two others in here that don't really qualify as programming but are hard to classify otherwise: [[XML]] and [[Regular expression]] (re). -- [[User:Smjg|Smjg]] 11:02, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

:I don't know enough about XML to say (as far as I understand it is complex data definitions & storage), but regular expressions allow actions to be performed, so that looks like programming to me. HTML/XHTML & CSS don't exactly belong here. The templates I made for these categories don't list the users as programmers (unless someone changed them). As for RTF, no one writes it by hand unless they are making a RTF editor. So to summerize: CSS, HTML/XHTML and RTF are all presentation layer, while XML, regular expressions deal with the actual data layer (I consider dealing with data programming). [[User:CyberSkull|Dread Lord <font color="FF0000">C</font><font color="EE0000">y</font><font color="DD0000">b</font><font color="CC0000">e</font><font color="BB0000">r</font><font color="AA0000">S</font><font color="990000">k</font><font color="880000">u</font><font color="770000">l</font><font color="660000">l</font>]] [[User_talk:CyberSkull|✎☠]] 20:21, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

:: So to you, typing data into a database constitutes programming? :-) Anyway, most of the category pages at the first level below this one use [[Template:Usersprogram]], which uses the word "program" - I changed the HTML and XHTML ones the other day. Is it worth creating a corresponding template for markup languages? -- [[User:Smjg|Smjg]] 13:20, 26 September 2005 (UTC)