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Article #6191Re: Bondage and Discipline Languages
From: Bob Larson
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1989 19:04
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1989 19:04
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In article <4246@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>But to throw some new wood on the fire, consider the following: Assume
>you have routine you want to call but whose name you don't know until
>run-time, thus you have the name in a string. Now in which langauges
>can you easily do this? Interpreting langauges like Lisp and Basic,
>support this I guess. But compiled langauges?
Info/Basic (Assuming you consider p-code languages compiled.)
Most any language under Primos: Pl/I, C, FORTRAN, PMA, etc. The
language does need to support procedure pointers and some way to do
type punning, (or this part can be done in another language) and the
routine called must be in one of the libraries in the entry$ search
rules.
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