Wij van Eigenwereld.nl zijn DIE HARD!! geeks die graag spelen met de bekende media en zich dood irriteren als we in films en TV series zien hoe er gehackt wordt (wat in realiteit doodsaai is) en regels code (wat ook erg saai is) wordt gebruikt die nergens over gaan. Maar zo heel nu en dan zijn er echt coding skills te zien, en daarom heeft de website Motherboard dit erg geeky, maar verdomd interessant artikel geschreven.

We can use the Tumblr Source Code in TV and Films-"Images of the computer code appearing in TV and films and what they really are"-as an IRL reference. It's maintained by John Graham-Cummings, author of The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive.

Let's start with the very worst, which is HTML. First, while it plays the on-screen role of super-important but undefined programming language probably more than any other language, HTML isn't really a programming language at all; instead, it's a markup language, code that defines the appearance of a web document and doesn't really do computation. It's not Turing complete, which is sort of the benchmark standard of a programming language, ensuring its ability compute "any" algorithm written in pseudocode (programming language-agnostic programming, basically). (The Turing completeness of HTML is up for debate, but, in principle, no it's not.)

But, whatever. Movie-goers aren't very worried about Turing completeness (most of them). HTML just looks like shit. The screen-grab below (from CSI: Cyber) isn't what all HTML looks like-by any stretch-but taken on average, it tends to start looking like angle-bracket soup. And once you start incorporating PHP and JavaScript ... ugh. It's like soup with clumps of dog hair in it.