On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:39:14AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > 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. ...
> There's a long and glorious history of generating code incrementally > in an otherwise interpreted language. Java didn't invengt anything > new when it invented bytecode and JIT... mostly, it just reinvented > the UCSD P-code system from the mid/early 1970's. There was even hardware build that could directly execute p-code. I think the same chips were used (Texas Instruments??) that DEC used to build the LSI11/2 CPUs -- | / o / /_ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands We are FreeBSD. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be committed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
