Ted Roche wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Gene Wirchenko<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> At 08:38 2009-08-11, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Mea culpa, but not language as in 'programming language'! >>> > > >> How would you differentiate the two? >> >> Fair warning: I am taking a course in the theory of computation. >> >> > > Well, then, you really ought to know already, shouldn't you? :) > > I'd take a swipe at it: a markup language (XML, HTML) is a syntax and > grammar for describing the metadata that dictates the structure and > representation of data. optionally contained in a document. In > contrast, a programming language provides instructions for an > interpreter/compiler to execute against said data. > Or maybe : a markup describes a desired result whereas a programming language describes a series of actions (though that would put SQL into the markup camp).
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