Harvard vs. vonNeuman

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Tue Sep 28 21:54:16 2004

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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