Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!poe From: Hans Erik Martino Hansen Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: combining interpreted and compiled beta Date: 5 May 1995 14:20:26 GMT Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3odc7a$dac@belfort.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: trollius.daimi.aau.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1b3 (X11; I; SunOS 5.3 sun4m) X-URL: news://news.daimi.aau.dk/comp.lang.beta As a computerscientist student I have expirienced interpreted languages as well as compiled ones. I am convinced one can develop faster in an interpreted language than a compiled one. Why not combine the two things in beta, the idea is as follows: Compile a complete beta interpreter into the executable. The interpreter loads the fragments which have changed or is affected by a change since the compilation. Calls to the changed code is then redirected to the interpreter. The advantages will then be speedier development, and a macrolanguage for free. Do you think this is a good idea, doable or will it be better to take the step and only use an interpreter. -- Erik M. Hansen | Email martino@daimi.aau.dk Fuglesangsalle 69 | WWW http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~martino/ DK-8210 =C5rhus V | Phone +45 86 10 68 14 Denmark, Europe | I study Computer Science at Aarhus University