I would say that a "language" is a necessary component of a "programming language".
An empty file was an IOCCC winner: https://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr/ but you need to interpret that empty file as C source in order to reasonably claim to have programmed the computer.
My reasoning comes more from the other direction: someone who writes HTML is programming therefore HTML is a programming language.
So any text file is a programming language?
I would say that a "language" is a necessary component of a "programming language".
An empty file was an IOCCC winner: https://www.ioccc.org/1994/smr/ but you need to interpret that empty file as C source in order to reasonably claim to have programmed the computer.
My reasoning comes more from the other direction: someone who writes HTML is programming therefore HTML is a programming language.
Can you give a clearer definition of when a person "is programming"?
Your earlier definition talked about giving the computer a capability, but that capability just seemed to be displaying a specific file?
Where is the cutoff on the line from HTML to markdown to ASCII? (noting that ASCII uses control codes that trigger special behavior)
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