Re: Poor Webmaster Personal Sites

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From: Murray (forums_at_HAHAgreat-web-sights.com)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:05:41 -0500

There are those who would say you are still off - javacsript is not
programming it's scripting. C++ is a program. JS is just a scripting
language, as is the ActionScript in Flash. 

-- 
Murray
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"Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in message 
news:d1kohe$vlt$1@ratbert.glorb.com...
> Bob Lehmann wrote:
>>>Websites are software... Computer programs.
>>
>> Web pages that consist of nothing but HTML are not programs. That's like
>> calling a letter you wrote in a Word Processor a program.
>
> Web pages containing any kind of active scripting or with any kind of 
> programming on the backend are what I'm referring to. You're right; if 
> it's exclusively HTML, it's just text with markup. But add Javascript, 
> Flash, or generate the code dynamically using a scripting or programming 
> language... then programming is involved :) (with Flash, I'd go further 
> and say you have to have some programming logic involved to consider it 
> having been programmed, but you get the idea)
>
>> If it was static, then it wouldn't be dynamic, now would it? But, I bet 
>> FP
>> could be used to recreate amazon.com.
>
> You bet FP could be used to recreate amazon.com? Just FP, with no 
> programming on the backend? I'll take that bet any day.
>
>>>forever - you should freshen it up on a regular basis
>>
>> What does that have to do with it being error free?
>
> I was responding to the implication that it's ok to let the site just sit 
> there and never do anything with it.
>
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