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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Self-modifying code Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:53:21 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87d1zx3ory.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> References: <87h9pa2do6.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <9c3ad4ad-1323-4c13-b2d2-dad6b1ea1c39@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="22184b02e80198190244f5a2dd813f11"; logging-data="3335"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18vgpViq/MdB76XlF6+KQRD" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aC35fU9P8t/q97OaSZltpjgTJh0= sha1:5GBLjrUlWlnLziDIN0kUsrMnBoY= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26790 Date: 2015-07-11T22:53:21-07:00 List-Id: David Botton writes: >> You could generate a dynamically linkable module, but this all seems >> pretty un-Ada. > I'm not sure the idea is about any particular language. I can think of > many ways to make it work, but all depend on the environment the code > will run in not really the language. Yeah, it's similar at a technical level, but I think philosophically out of sync with Ada, because of the additional moving parts.