A polyglot is a person the knows several languages. This project is similar, in that it contains sample files from multiple programming languages. This file is an example in Markdown.
The following languages are included in this project. Not all languages will be represented.
- Markup
- Markdown
- HTML
- XML
- Java
- Bash
- Ruby
- Python
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- CoffeeScript
These are markup-style languages. Some purists may not even consider them true languages. However, to me, since they all have unique and specific syntax, that qualifies them in my book.
Markdown was inspired by common text-based e-mail conventions to enhance plain text with additional meaning by using special characters for assumed formatting.
E__x__tensible __M__arkup Language was created to provide a common way to communicate between different systems and could also be used as the basis of other document markup languages like RSS.
Hypertext Markup Language is the primary document language of the World-wide Web on the Internet.
Java is a C-style programming language was created by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle).