If we trim markdown to just italic, bold, and underline, is it still a programming language?
What if we trim even further, to just the ASCII control codes? My newline characters make the computer perform a special action to generate formatted output. Is that programming?
If we trim markdown to just italic, bold, and underline, is it still a programming language?
What if we trim even further, to just the ASCII control codes? My newline characters make the computer perform a special action to generate formatted output. Is that programming?
if we trim a regex down to literal character matches is it still a regex?
So any text file is a programming language?
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