• shuzuko@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    It’s a markup language. In the simplest explanation, a programming language describes a process (what does the thing do) while a markup language describes a structure (how is the thing supposed to be displayed). There’s more to it than that, but someone else can get into deeper if they want, it’s beyond me lol

    • BeefPiano@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Diogenes throws a Ruby on Rails model over the fence and shouts “Behold a markup language!”

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      a markup language describes a structure (how is the thing supposed to be displayed)

      A markup language does not define how something is to be displayed, that’s what a styling language is for (usually CSS). A markup language semantically defines what certain parts of the created document are.

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      10 months ago

      I knew it was a markup language, but didn’t know the diff between the two since I’m not a programmer. Thanks