From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?
Date: 17 May 2002 19:59:15 -0700
Date: 2002-05-18T02:59:15+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205171859.14abf161@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>...
> Another feature of scripting languages is the almost casual use of
> dynamically loaded code. It's not uncommon at all to calculate at run
> time what executable code will be loaded, for example. (Think "java
> applets" if you aren't familiar with programming other scripting
> languages.) I think this is fairly difficult to do in Ada.
Again, this is just a particular feature of languages, that some languages
have and others don't. COBOL for example has dynamic binding of all procedure
calls, and dynamic loading of code, and always has, and it is routine in the
COBOL world to add new modules dynamically to a running program without
stopping it. But most people would hardly consider COBOL to be a scripting
language.
I still find the term very dubious and not particularly useful.
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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
2002-05-18 2:59 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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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