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Markup Language

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A markup language, in software specifically used to distinguish something as not a programming language, is a system of tags that you can use to describe a structure. The classic Markup language is HTML, where tags like <h1> denote headers, <p> denote paragraphs, <i> means italics, stuff like that. But there are tons of other markup languages like XML and LaTeX.

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