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For a veteran programmer learning a new language like Haskell, I agree completely.

For a novice programmer learning their first language, they probably don't understand the quicksort algo and probably have no concept of arrays or any data structure. Visually displaying "Hello World" is very simple and teaches you two basic parts of a language: - Syntax - Printing stuff

On another note, someone learning HTML for the first time will have no reason to do quicksort.



I don't believe HTML is Turing complete, and thus it's difficult to argue that it is indeed a language for computing.




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