What is The Difference Between SGML And Clean, Programming Languages

SGML is a Markup Language, while Clean is an Interpreted Programming Language

What are Markup Languages

A markup language is an artificial language that uses annotations to text that define how the text is to be displayed.

What are Interpreted Programming Languages

An interpreted language is a programming language for which most of its implementations execute instructions directly, without previously compiling a program into machine-language instructions. The interpreter executes the program directly, translating each statement into a sequence of one or more subroutines already compiled into machine code. (Wikipedia)

While SGML is a Markup Language, and Clean is an Interpreted Programming Language

Let us now look at the difference between the two:

What is SGML Programming Language – A brief synopsis

Standardized General Markup Language (SGML) has descended from IBM’s Generalized Markup Language. It is an ISO standard metalanguage that can define markup languages for documents. It was designed with the intent of sharing machine-readable documents of large projects that had to be retained for long years.

What is Clean Programming Language – A brief synopsis

It is a purely functional programming language that supports portability across platforms, automatic garbage collection, multiple data structures and referential transparency, which means that a function with a given input will always give the same output.