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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Would an *AdaScript* language be a good / bad idea?
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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.