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Meta-HTML is a programming language specifically designed for working within the World Wide Web environment. Although it is a genuine programming language, suitable for large-scale symbolic manipulation, it provides the most commonly wanted Web functionality as built-in primitives, so you don't have to write them.
Web pages are authored using HTML and Meta-HTML statements freely intermixed. When a page is requested by a browser, the page is passed through the Meta-HTML interpreter, which dynamically processes any Meta-HTML statements to produce a final HTML page that is delivered to the browser.
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