Re: Script-like jobs in Ada (ideas for HAC)

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What about REPL with hot code reloading?

I know this is the province of LISP and recently Nim did it too, and I guess most scripting languages do it, like iPython? Anyway, I mean this: long ago I used a programming language called Basic09 that despite its name had a lot in common with Pascal and Modula-2 -- well, OK, with Ada if you want to put it that way: it offered structured programming techniques and modular programming, including modules. Like any BASIC, you interacted with an interpreter, but with Basic09 you could compile to I-code, save, load, and I believe even reload that I-code, etc.

I've always wished that modern compiled languages allowed one to do something like that, so that you could combine the best of a compiled language with the best of an interpreted one. The fact that it's pretty rare probably shows how little I know, though.