On compiling. (Was a way off topic subject)

[Van Snyder]

On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 20:48 -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> In other words, you can assemble some code, execute it, then go back
> to assembling the rest of the source text.  Cute.  Suppose you want
> to do something too hard for macros; just assemble its input data,
> followed by some code to convert that into the form you want, then go
> back to assembling more code.

I proposed this for Fortran about twenty years ago, and for what became
Ada when it was just DoD\1 requirements in about 1976.