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by 1718627440 162 days ago
It's a (computer) language, it is also a formal language. A programming language is a language in which you can write programs, which are descriptions of algorithms. You don't describe algorithms in HTML, hence it is not a programming language.
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Thats correct. Computer language is the top category. Markup and Programming languages are subcategories.