General-purpose language

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A general-purpose language is a computer language that is broadly applicable
across application domains, and lacks specialized features for a particular domain. This
is in contrast to a domain-specific language (DSL), which is specialized to a particular
application domain. The line is not always sharp, as a language may have specialized
features for a particular domain but be applicable more broadly, or conversely may in
principle be capable of broad application but in practice used primarily for a specific
domain.[1]
General-purpose languages are further subdivided by the kind of language, and include:

 General-purpose markup languages, such as XML[2]

 General-purpose modeling language such as the Unified Modeling
Language (UML)[3]
 General-purpose programming languages, such as C, Java, PHP, or Python[4]