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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
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j-anthony@rcn.com (Jon S. Anthony) writes:

> This sort of thing is perfectly reasonable and something that is
> extremely useful in a wide range of applications.
> 
> What I don't understand is why people don't just use technology that
> has solved this problem since "for ever".  No, dll's and so's are not
> the answer - they are intended to solve a different (related) problem
> and are at best a poor mans hack for what you are talking about.
> 
> What you really "need"[1] here is a true dynamic language.

Ok, I'll bite. What's a "true dynamic language"? Do you mean
"interpreted from source", like some versions of Basic, and most shell
languages? Or "interpreted from some intermediate byte code", like
most Visual Basic, Lisp implementations, Java, C#, etc? Or something
else?

All interpreters make the job of adding random code at run-time much
easier. 

-- 
-- Stephe