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So is Tex. And, yet, I still don't put it under the "programming languages I know" section on my resume. Probably because it's not a programming language.
Try it. Maybe you won't need a resume anymore.
It's important to keep an up to date resume, even if you're employed. That's a little life pro tip for you kids out there, with your iphones and your tik toks and your Fortnite dances and your existential malaise brought about by encroaching climate disaster and advanced technoindustrial capitalism.
What section would you put it under? It isn't clear to me where it would fit
Where you put it is not my problem.
The general census is that latex actually is an example of programming languages sharing semantics with non programming languages and not being intend as a programming language.
since you linked to wikipedia:
Programming language
Sometimes even non Turing complete languages are considered a programming language but Turing completeness usually is the criteria agreed upon: