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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic Plug-in Loading with Ada
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:53:22 +0200
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Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:35:16 +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't know if you have seen this paper: 
>>
>>   http://www.gnat.com/pressroom_20.php#
> 
> ...
> 
>>The paper explains the procedure for doing this in Windows. Does anybody
>>know if one could do the same in Linux with shared libraries?
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I put together a little package last year to do "Live Coding" in
> Ada under GNAT/Linux.
> 
> (...)
> 
> I think this goes a bit beyond implementing plug-ins because the
> new code was written out and compiled by the running program.
> And it could run new statements and function calls dynamically
> generated.

It's somewhat creepy... :) Skynet anyone?

> In curious to know if anyone else has tried "Live Coding"
> in Ada, and what the outcome was.

Not this exactly, but when you do some coding in Java within Eclipse you 
really get a taste for compilation on the fly...