[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[gah4]

On Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 5:15:44 AM UTC-7, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-09-11, gah4 <ga... at u.washington.edu> wrote: 

> > Maybe I don't know how everyone uses PHP, but the use I have seen is inside HTML. 

> > It is then processed by PHP before it is seen by the HTML parser. 
 
> > Even more, though PHP has to find its code inside arbitrary HTML, without actually 
> > parsing HTML.

> That's what the PHP open and close tags are for. Anything inside them 
> is treated as PHP code and anything outside them is not.

OK, but here is the part that I don't know. Say that the PHP tags are in
quoted strings.  Does it still see them?  If it isn't parsing HTML, it has
to be sure that it recognizes only the real open and close tags.