From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?
Date: 17 May 2002 19:54:44 -0700
Date: 2002-05-18T02:54:45+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205171854.6d6bff97@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CE3D8B4.C272C737@san.rr.com
Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message news:<3CE3D8B4.C272C737@san.rr.com>...
> Robert Dewar wrote:
> > I find this definition silly. All these languages can perfectly well
> > be compiled,
>
> Errr, I don't know about applescript of vbscript, but both Perl and
> Python (and Tcl and ...) have operators that run code that has been
> generated at runtime. So while it's possible to compile the code, you
> can't (for example) eliminate the compiler from the runtime.
Of course! In SPITBOL, the compiler is of course around at runtime
to implement the CODE and EVAL functions. So what? In SPITBOL/370,
these functions result in the dynamic creation of compiled executable
garbage collectable code that wanders around in the heap :-)
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-14 4:51 Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea? James Ross
2002-05-14 5:15 ` James Ross
2002-05-14 8:47 ` Ingo Marks
2002-05-14 14:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-14 19:24 ` Ingo Marks
2002-05-15 5:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-14 9:03 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-14 14:18 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-14 15:25 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-05-14 16:45 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-15 6:33 ` Per Sandbergs
2002-05-15 8:52 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-15 11:35 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-05-15 12:56 ` Steve Doiel
2002-05-15 14:28 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-16 2:46 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-16 16:04 ` Darren New
2002-05-16 17:18 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-16 18:52 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 14:33 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-17 16:22 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 16:56 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 23:13 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-17 23:20 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 16:58 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-17 17:23 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 17:35 ` Pascal Obry
2002-05-17 17:44 ` Darren New
2002-05-17 18:02 ` Pascal Obry
2002-05-17 23:12 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-17 23:27 ` Darren New
2002-05-18 2:54 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-05-18 2:59 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-28 0:31 ` David Thompson
2002-05-29 1:11 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-21 20:48 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-21 21:05 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-22 7:17 ` Pascal Obry
2002-05-22 11:29 ` Preben Randhol
2002-05-21 20:35 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-15 11:39 ` Bill Tate
2002-05-17 19:24 ` Gerhard Häring
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