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		brodo 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Top Programming Languages 2025 If HTML is a programming language, why not SVG? If SVG is a programming language, why not PNG? Is your image viewer just an interpreter executing PNG code? Maybe being a programming language is a spectrum...

1718627440 3 months ago [–]

Yes, if you go down this road then the equivalence of code and data means that everything is a programming language.

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