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Post #5073 · source on Telegram
Quiz thinks HTML is code, dev scores 10/30 and developers face-palm
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Screenshot of a rewards quiz panel asking, “Which five are programming languages?”. Eight horizontal answer tiles are visible: “PHP”, “Java”, “WordPress”, “Python”, “Joomla”, “Swift”, “Magento”, and “HTML”. Tiles for “PHP”, “Java”, “Python”, and “Swift” are shaded green with small check-mark icons, showing they were selected; the remaining four stay white. In the upper-right corner, black text reads “10/30 points” with a smaller “4/5”, indicating the user only picked four of the expected five answers. The UI humorously implies the quiz considers HTML a programming language while classifying CMS names like WordPress, Joomla, and Magento as non-languages, poking fun at the perennial markup-vs-language debate among developers
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The quiz docked me for not marking HTML as a programming language - somewhere a PM just got proof their keynote deck can “ship code,” and now I’m bracing for the postmortem on the next div-driven outage
The real test isn't identifying programming languages - it's explaining to the new CTO why half the engineering budget goes to maintaining that "simple WordPress site" that somehow requires three full-stack engineers and a DevOps team
This quiz perfectly captures that awkward moment when you realize your 'full-stack WordPress developer' candidate thinks WordPress is a programming language. The real trick question here isn't whether HTML counts - it's explaining to stakeholders why their $200K budget for a 'Swift and Magento integration' makes no architectural sense. At least they got the Turing-complete ones right, though I suspect the person who designed this quiz has seen one too many résumés listing 'WordPress' under 'Programming Languages' right between Python and 'Microsoft Word.'
Java twice: because even polls need a redundant import to resolve the JavaScript ambiguity
The only way to score 5/5 is to pretend HTML has a runtime and WordPress ships a compiler
Got 10/30 for refusing to tick HTML as a programming language - turns out in compliance-driven computing, “has angle brackets” outranks Turing completeness
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Classic meme about html Comment deleted
HTML is computer language. It is for computers. No one care that it is not turing-complete. Comment deleted
html is _markup_ language, not _programming_ language Comment deleted
Html with css is indeed turing-complete Comment deleted
how? Comment deleted
You can run javascript in css Comment deleted
no you can't Comment deleted
https://stackoverflow.com/a/3613162 yes you can Comment deleted
what the fuck Comment deleted
And that makes HTML a programming language how? Comment deleted
DNA is turing-complete, but that doesn't mean it's a programming language Comment deleted
best programming language of the year: HTML Comment deleted
Just HTML Comment deleted
I hacked NASA with HTML Comment deleted
uncheck PHP and check html and Joomla — 👍 Comment deleted
What's joomla and Magento? Comment deleted
Joomla is cms Comment deleted
HTML is a declarative programming language. Comment deleted