I think technically speaking they're not programming languages.
What, exactly, makes PHP and JS not programming languages?
They're interpreted. Though I decided to look it up again and it turns out that scripting languages are still considered programming languages. TIL
You don't use PHP to write a program. You use it to define the implementation of a program (the server). That is to say, the server is its own program that consults your PHP code at a step in its own algorithms.
This is more conceptual than the difference between interpreted and compiled, which is fortunate since as mentioned, those concepts are becoming less distinct and plus, many languages can be either.
For example, Java is (traditionally?) interpreted but it's definitely a programming language because the result is an executable/library.
This is 100% bullshit. ---
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