But also, you’re making a computer do what you want, and something that it wasn’t programmed by the factory to display, when you write HTML. You’re programming.
Fair point. There’s a fine line between programming and creating data that a program operates on. I tend to think writing text to produce nontext output is more programming than not.
There are programming languages that are entirely visual. In fact, I could parse the pixels in a bitmap created by ms paint and make it into programming.
It’s not even that hard. Assign a set of color values to a character in Brainfuck. Iterate through each pixel and do the translation. Throw away color values that don’t match. Run the result through the Brainfuck compiler.
If I’m really crazy, I could implement the instructions directly rather than translating, but translation is easier.
But also, you’re making a computer do what you want, and something that it wasn’t programmed by the factory to display, when you write HTML. You’re programming.
Under this definition, using mspaint is programming
Time to add 10 years of programming experience to my CV
Fair point. There’s a fine line between programming and creating data that a program operates on. I tend to think writing text to produce nontext output is more programming than not.
There are programming languages that are entirely visual. In fact, I could parse the pixels in a bitmap created by ms paint and make it into programming.
It’s not even that hard. Assign a set of color values to a character in Brainfuck. Iterate through each pixel and do the translation. Throw away color values that don’t match. Run the result through the Brainfuck compiler.
If I’m really crazy, I could implement the instructions directly rather than translating, but translation is easier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#Piet
Aaaaand you’ve now reinvented punch cards for Brainfuck in mspaint. How do you feel about yourself?
Just fine, thank you.