A general purpose markup language is a markup language that is used for more than one purpose or situation. Other, more specialized markup languages are often based upon these languages: i.e., HTML being based upon the syntax of SGML.
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Famous quotes containing the words general, purpose and/or language:
“Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
—Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)