Difference between Markup and Programming Language
Many people dive into the world of programming just to hit a barrier of confusion. They don’t know the difference between Markup and Programming language. Since the two topics confused the coding community, we decided to simplify it by giving you the difference between Markup and Programming language.
What is a Markup Language?
A Markup language is a computer language that edits the contents or the elements using tags. The tags are enclosed around the content creating a specific element for the document. Tags differ between markup languages, but they all carry the same concept of enclosing tags. Markup languages build the structure of the document. For example, HTML is a markup language used to create the structure of a web page. Two of the most used markup languages are; HTML and XML.
What is a Programming Language?
A Programming language is a set of rules given to computers to compile it into a program or a script. Different programming languages have different syntax but share the same basic rules like loops, recursion, if/else statements, etc. Examples of programming languages; Python, Java, Perl, SQL, C++, C#, etc. If you want to learn coding for free, check out this article (You can go read part of it on our Medium Story).
