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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,84bf0ec36cf20893 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-17 19:54:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea? Date: 17 May 2002 19:54:44 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205171854.6d6bff97@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0205140618.2d789fc9@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0205151846.4b14a73f@posting.google.com> <3CE3D8B4.C272C737@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021690485 10241 127.0.0.1 (18 May 2002 02:54:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 May 2002 02:54:45 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24328 Date: 2002-05-18T02:54:45+00:00 List-Id: Darren New 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 :-)