28 Sep
2004
28 Sep
'04
2:54 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:05:18PM -0400, David V. Corbin wrote:
Actually this is (sort of) becoming more common. One
exciting feature of a
new platform by the software vendor who shall not be named, is that the
compiler is actually part of the runtime. This means that any program can
write source code to a string (or other structure) and compile and execute
it!!!!!!
You mean like Perl's 'eval'?
-ethan
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