From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f495c7652c09dd8c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Does this model work ? Date: 1999/05/14 Message-ID: <373C5244.3A16F5B8@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 477863410 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <373e38e2.31311363@news2.ibm.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news7.ispnews.com 926700050 206.102.3.10 (Fri, 14 May 1999 12:40:50 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:40:50 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: There was some plan to promote that model with the Oberon language and a system called Juice. I think that a compiler was available as a browser plug-in. That language is simple and said to facilitate very fast compilation with small compilers. Source code can be relatively compact compared to executable code, so that transfers (eg over the internet with dial-up users) can save much more time by transmitting source instead of executable than it takes to compile and link the source on typical end-user machines. With machines at 300 Mhz and up becoming common,the differences between fast and slow compilations isn't even noticeable for non-huge programs, so other languages should be able to play the same game, too. Al Jean-Marten Marchi wrote: > > After all, with all this Open Source Software movement nowadays, is it > possible to distribute applications in source code form (rather in > bytecode form) to various devices or stations? > > Compile, link, etc ... are done automatically on the local computer > and the binaries are stored wherever it is more appropriate. > > You can ask the application to execute whenever you want without > reloading, or you can replace it with a newer version if necessary. > > I see some benefits to this approach, but, did i miss something?