[Gavisann]

Like Lemur said, I call it a programming language when I am talking to programming noobs because it would be too difficult to explain the difference between a markup language and a programming language. It also pads your application when instead of only listing c# in the "programming languages I know" field, I can add XHTML, HTML5, HTML, CSS, CSS2, CSS3, Javascript, Jquery, AJAX, ASP.NET, MySQl and C#....Uninformed employers are great bosses.

[Lemur]

That, and HR will adore you. Use that and Web 2.0 99 times in your application and it's surefire.

[anomie]

Gavisann, on 09 July 2011 - 07:22 PM, said:

Like Lemur add XHTML, HTML5, HTML, CSS, CSS2, CSS3, Javascript, Jquery, AJAX, ASP.NET, MySQl and C#....Uninformed employers are great bosses.

I agree with this; I dabbled very lightly in web coding (a general term, but useful) in high school, but in college when I decided to work for an Internet startup, I learned HTML, CSS, and Javascript in a couple of weeks and after a couple of months (and many late nights) I had a good sense of PHP and SQL as well. I can't imagine what use one could have for HTML in the absence of scripting, but I roll my eyes at the Manichean distinction that sometimes gets drawn between compiled and interpreted languages, and HTML is fundamentally a method of presenting scripted content and functionality for the Web. The startup I work at would never hire someone who ONLY knows HTML, but the reality is that a good understanding of DHTML+PHP allows you to program computers to do cool things, which is the whole point.

[111027]

We call them web designers.