Just to clarify, I google a lot while coding, but one thing I learnt from my engineering degree is that is there is no ‘best’ solution.

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    24 days ago

    program the structure of a web page

    In a loose sense, yes.

    But then someone could also say that when making LATEX templates is programming the structure of the documents.

    I prefer calling it markup, because, even though people might prefer calling it ‘programming’, due to people’s high esteem perception of the word, if you look at it from a neutral standpoint, markup is a word that represents the actual work, much more closely.

    e.g. I use Qt Designer[1] to create UI stuff, and in some cases QML[2] and if I were to only be defining placements, shapes, sizes and colours of elements, I would like to call that part as marking-up the UI [3], while the part where I define functions, timers and connections would be the programming part.


    1. which is a UI to create UI stuff, which creates an XML definition of the final UI to be generated ↩︎

    2. which is based on JS ↩︎

    3. of course I don’t because nobody would understand, but if people did care about the word (and I kinda like the word), it would be more accurate ↩︎