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

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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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