On 20 Nov 2006, Giampaolo Tomassoni spake thusly: >> That's not even mentioning the metaprogramming and higher-order >> programming techniques that we use extensively in SpamAssassin -- those >> are basically *just not possible* in C/C++. ;) > > Ops. What's this stuff? Let me know.
eval and all that it implies. Compiling and executing code at runtime. Calling functions by name. That sort of thing. Of course you *can* do it in C/C++. The traditional method is to write an interpreter or JIT-compiler for another language and do whatever-it- is in that other language. Conveniently Larry Wall et al have done that for us: the `other language' is of course perl. -- `The main high-level difference between Emacs and (say) UNIX, Windows, or BeOS... is that Emacs boots quicker.' --- PdS
