Embedded languages

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Linguistic abstraction - slide 9 : 22

Embedded languages

A new language N is an embedded language in an existing language E if an expression in N can be used as a subexpression of a construct in E.

There are many examples of embedding web languages and programming languages
- Embedding of CSS in HTML, SVG and other XML languages
- Embedding of Javascript in HTML for client dynamics
- Embedding of a programming language in HTML at the server-side
  - ASP: HTML embedding of Visual Basic fragments
  - JSP: HTML embedding of Java fragments
  - PHP: HTML embedding of C-like fragments
  - BRL: HTML embedding of Scheme fragments