Timeline for Why is XML called a "language" exactly?
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| Apr 5, 2016 at 8:43 | comment | added | Luaan | You can even recurse. I've seen NAnt scripts (an XML-based language) that contained C# code, which was only used for data storage. Using string literals that contained XML. Yes, it's the kind of thing that makes grown men cry :P | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 8:34 | comment | added | Philipp | @Luaan ...and a programming language can also be abused to convey data. Like with JSON, for example. | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 8:18 | comment | added | Luaan | ... and that data may very well be a description of an algorithm. | |
| Apr 3, 2016 at 16:47 | history | answered | Philipp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |