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What is your definition of 'programming language'?


It should have arrays, and loops and conditionals.


Slightly simplistic: table rows cover arrays, recursive CTEs cover loops, and JOIN/WHERE cover conditionals.


OK. My definition is that it should be able to add two integers together and give you a result somehow. So in SQL:

    select 1+1; -- Result: 2
In HTML: not possible.

That's the key difference.




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