Markup vs Markdown languages

Markup language

Markup Language is a type of language that defines rules for indicating the format in which documents are displayed on the screen or specifying the logical structure of data. It is different from programming language in that it is a language that describes data.

Markup = a language that describes data.

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Examples of Markup languages

• HTML (The most common)
• XML
• XHTML
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Markdown language

Markdown is a type of markup language that aims for document forms that are easy to read, unlike HTML documents covered with all kinds of tags.

Markdown = a lightweight markup language.

Since it aims for a document style that is easy to read and write, the complex tag structure disappears and allows you to write by knowing simple texts and a few grammar.

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Those two languages are not programming languages !!