HTML is not a programming language because it fails to meet several functional criteria. Nevertheless, HTML coding is valuable beyond that pedantic debate.

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But underestimating HTML is a mistake. HTML is the most significant computing language, programming or otherwise, ever developed.

JavaScript creator Brendan Eich charts the programming language's life from Mosaic to Internet Explorer and Chrome.