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+Jonathon Barton Coding doesn't seem to mean what it used to. After I had written a few programs in machine code for the Z80, I moved on to assembler, Pascal, C and then a whole heap of other languages, including functional programming languages. That's coding.
I'm not saying making web pages is a lesser activity, just that I don't call it coding. If other people do it's just another example of a meaning changing I suppose.
Hey ho, anno domini….
+Chris Blackmore When you get into Rails (which is mentioned in the article), it's definitely programming. Your UI is a browser – that's the only significant difference.
Example:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby-on-rails/rails-examples.htm
In the event of some spare time turning up before the next new language sensation, I'll give it a good looking at. I suppose using a browser is only slightly different from all these cissy IDEs I keep using. [Wanders off, muttering about hex editors for machine code.]