Re: On compiling. (Was a way off topic subject)

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jun 23, 2021, at 2:44 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> There are the languages that are otherwise nearly impossible to compile.
> 
> Consider SNOBOL4 (although there is a compiled version called SPITBOL,
> but without several hard-to-implement features).  One can construct
> statements at run time and execute them. A bit unusual back then, but
> not so much today.

That just means compiling it at the time the constructed statement is submitted 
for execution, then executing the generated code.  No problem so long as the 
compiler is available at run time.  PDP-10 TECO did that (it has the same 
feature, executing a string buffer full of commands).  So does Python, and I 
suspect it solves it the same way.

        paul