What is The Difference Between SGML And Smalltalk, Programming Languages

SGML is a Markup Language, while Smalltalk is a Compiled 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 Compiled Programming Languages

A compiled language is a programming language whose implementations are typically compilers (translators that generate machine code from source code), and not interpreters (step-by-step executors of source code, where no pre-runtime translation takes place). (Wikipedia)

While SGML is a Markup Language, and Smalltalk is a Compiled 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 Smalltalk Programming Language – A brief synopsis

It is a reflective, object-oriented programming language that supports dynamic typing. Alan Kay, Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, Scott Wallace, Ted Kaehler and their associates at Xerox PARC developed Smalltalk. They designed it for educational use and it soon became popular. VisualWorks is a prominent implementation of Smalltalk. Squeak is a programming language that is in the form of an implementation of Smalltalk. Scratch is a visual programming language based on Squeak.