What is the difference between a markup language and a programming language?

Answer 1

markup language is used to contral the presentation of data
programming language is used by humans to give instructions to a matchine

Answer 2

A markup language is used to organize the given data so that a programme (e.g. a browser) can interpret it. Whereas a programming language is used to issue commands to the computer or to build computer programmes (such as a browser).

Answer 3

A markup language is a simple way to distinguish and represent data using identifiers like tags which the program can recognize. A computer programming language is a set of logic instructions a computer uses to perform a task over and over again (algorithm).

Answer 4

mark up language = html = build content or construction of the webpage using tags
programing language = php/asp.net = building program or function inside the html webpage used the element tags to make webpages more dynamically "alive"

Answer 5

A markup language is a systematic arrangement and presentation of web contents using tags for browser's readability and accessibility While programming language is a command machine language use it build up machine processing programs.