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<h1 id="polyglot-project">Polyglot Project</h1>

<h2 id="purpose">Purpose</h2>
<p>A <strong>polyglot</strong> is a person the knows <em>several</em> languages. This project is similar, in that it contains <em>sample</em> files from multiple programming languages. This file is an example in Markdown.</p>

<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2>
<p>The following languages are included in this project. Not all languages will be represented.</p>

<h3 id="languages">Languages</h3>
  <ul>
    <li>Markup
      <ul>
        <li>Markdown</li>
        <li>HTML</li>
        <li>XML</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    <li>Java</li>
    <li>Bash</li>
    <li>Ruby</li>
    <li>Python</li>
    <li>CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)</li>
    <li>JavaScript
      <ul>
        <li>TypeScript</li>
        <li>CoffeeScript</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>

<h3 id="markup">Markup</h3>
<p>These are markup-style languages. Some purists may not even consider them true <em>languages</em>. However, to me, since they all have unique and specific <strong>syntax</strong>, that qualifies them in my book.</p>

<h4 id="markdown">Markdown</h4>
<p><strong>Markdown</strong> was inspired by common text-based e-mail conventions to enhance plain text with additional meaning by using special characters for assumed formatting.</p>

<h4 id="xml">XML</h4>
<p>E<strong>x</strong>tensible <strong>M</strong>arkup <strong>L</strong>anguage 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 <strong>RSS</strong>.</p>

<h4 id="html">HTML</h4>
<p><strong>H</strong>yper<strong>t</strong>ext <strong>M</strong>arkup <strong>L</strong>anguage is the primary document language of the <strong>W</strong>orld-<strong>w</strong>ide <strong>W</strong>eb on the Internet.</p>

<h3 id="java">Java</h3>
<p>Java is a C-style programming language was created by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle).</p>

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