Comment by Juanita Brown on "What is the strangest programming language you have used?"

I agree with you for the most part, however: CSS is not a programming language. It's a style-sheet language, just like HTML is a markup-language (CSS is mainly used for HTML) ;) Other style-sheet language include, but are not limited to XSL (for XML) and DSSSL (for SGML and DocBook). The purpose of a style-sheet language is to transform a markup (defined with a markup-language, like HTML, XML and SGML) in a certain way. That may include graphical transformations, as well as content transformations.

While this comment might seem like nitpicking, it's actually quite important to know, as every kind of language was created for a different kind of job.

/* CSS */
h1 {
  color: blue;
  font-family: verdana;
  font-size: 300%;
}
p {
  color: red;
  font-family: courier;
  font-size: 160%;
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xsl:version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<body style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;background-color:#EEEEEE">
<xsl:for-each select="breakfast_menu/food">
  <div style="background-color:teal;color:white;padding:4px">
  <span style="font-weight:bold"><xsl:value-of select="name"/> - </span>
  <xsl:value-of select="price"/>
  </div>
  <div style="margin-left:20px;margin-bottom:1em;font-size:10pt">
  <p>
  <xsl:value-of select="description"/>
  <span style="font-style:italic"> (<xsl:value-of select="calories"/> calories per serving)</span>
  </p>
  </div>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>

<!doctype style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN">

(declare-flow-object-class element
  "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::element")
(declare-flow-object-class empty-element
  "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::empty-element")
(declare-characteristic preserve-sdata?
  "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Characteristic::preserve-sdata?"
  #t)

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Default rule
(default (output-element))

(define (output-element #!optional (node (current-node)))
  (if (node-property "must-omit-end-tag?" node)
      (make empty-element
      attributes: (copy-attributes))
      (make element
      attributes: (copy-attributes))))

(define (copy-attributes #!optional (nd (current-node)))
  (let loop ((atts (named-node-list-names (attributes nd))))
    (if (null? atts)
        '()
        (let* ((name (car atts))
               (value (attribute-string name nd)))
          (if value
              (cons (list name value)
                    (loop (cdr atts)))
              (loop (cdr atts)))))))

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