What programming languages are simply abstractions on top of another programming language?

Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com>
Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:34:45 +0300

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From: Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:34:45 +0300
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Posted-Date: 21 Jun 2022 19:23:00 EDT

There are more than a few languages which compile to the JVM (Java Virtual
Machine).


Lombok for Java, presuming you consider it a language fits that example.


My impression is that Kotlin is an evolution of that.
Scala is another possible example.
I'm sure there are more.


The lisp/scheme people do that quite often with "hygenic macros" and the
"Racket" (or "Dr Racket") parser generator is built using that idea.




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