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Discussion on: So, how many of you respect CSS as a programming language?

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Patricio Ferraggi

Does css care about my respect? Does it matter if it is a programming language or not? Don't we have more important stuff to care about?

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Silvestar Bistrović

Thank you for your comment. I would say that this attitude brought us here. CSS cares because if you respect CSS we wouldn't see so many “bad” CSS code out there.

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Patricio Ferraggi • Edited

I don't agree with that statement, caring if a tool is a programming language or not doesn't prevent developers for not caring about the quality of their work. You should bring your best doesn't matter what the tools are. CSS doesn't care because it is a tool, just as c# or my phone that I am using to answer this. Tools don't care, people care. We need to teach developers to value their work, not their tools.

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Anders Jackson

You are wrong.
It is respecting the specifications and definition that is needed.

That was what went wrong with HTML in the beginning.
That is also why we have so much uggly code. People doesn't respect the definitions of the programming languages.

So no, to wrongly define CSS as a programming language will not solve your problem.