On Tuesday 28 September 2004 17:22, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> Hmm, interesting point. PHP's the example which immediately springs to
> mind - I believe it has the equivalent of eval to execute dynamically
> generated code (and these days is available in standalone flavours). Not
> sure if it beat .net to availability though.
>
> Doesn't Perl have something along these lines? I'd be surprised if not.
Yes, it does. So does tcl. And tcl has been around for quite some
time...since the early 80s, as I recall.
>
> Unix shell scripts qualify too I suppose.
>
> And Java comes close, but with the added security of the compiler being
> seperate.
>
> (And with the exception of Unix shell scripts, they'll all work on any
> modern platform, not just one particular line)
>
> cheers,
>
> Jules
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