Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > Anybody know any languages that allow compile-time (and/or link-time) > > computations using (most of?) the same language? I've often desired the > > feature. (I suppose some preprocessor like m4 could handle some of it.) > > LISP. Forth. Smalltalk. Prolog. BASIC. Oh yeah... Java.
Can any of those execute or interpret some code and then compile the results of that into a non-interpreted executable? That's what I had desired, if it wasn't clear before. Otherwise, you're still doing the special computations at run time, only slower. Maybe I HAVE heard of some interpreters (Python?) saving an excecutable image of themselves after running a while. Is that what you're thinking of? Will all of those language systems above do that? It's not quite what I was thinking of, but I guess it meets my (poor) specifications. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
