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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:aed:2213:: with SMTP id n19mr10931385qtc.246.1587770554967; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:22:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a4a:b141:: with SMTP id e1mr9962387ooo.54.1587770554622; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:22:34 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweak.nl!209.85.160.216.MISMATCH!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:22:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9a4ad55c-ef0d-42ab-a438-cabc71a491a6@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2601:3c3:401:f550:d974:b44a:2040:3802; posting-account=mOeXzwoAAACt_yXMqECCp_EJfeVMNM-g NNTP-Posting-Host: 2601:3c3:401:f550:d974:b44a:2040:3802 References: <9a4ad55c-ef0d-42ab-a438-cabc71a491a6@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Script-like jobs in Ada (ideas for HAC) From: cantanima.perry@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:22:34 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58487 Date: 2020-04-24T16:22:34-07:00 List-Id: What about REPL with hot code reloading? I know this is the province of LISP and recently Nim did it too, and I gues= s most scripting languages do it, like iPython? Anyway, I mean this: long a= go 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 t= o put it that way: it offered structured programming techniques and modular= programming, including modules. Like any BASIC, you interacted with an int= erpreter, but with Basic09 you could compile to I-code, save, load, and I b= elieve even reload that I-code, etc. I've always wished that modern compiled languages allowed one to do somethi= ng like that, so that you could combine the best of a compiled language wit= h the best of an interpreted one. The fact that it's pretty rare probably s= hows how little I know, though.