[87857] in Cypherpunks
Re: [LONG, off-topic]] Interactive Programming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (? the Platypus {aka David Formosa})
Wed Oct 8 05:13:47 1997
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 18:38:50 +1000 (EST)
From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
To: Peter Trei <trei@process.com>
cc: bcrosby@mncs.k12.mn.us, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199710071346.GAA11853@toad.com>
Reply-To: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
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On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Peter Trei wrote:
> > Does anyone have
> > information about self-modifing programs/routines?
Avoid them like the plage. There a true PIA to do anything with.
> LISP programmers are much more into writing programs which
> build and execute routines on the fly.
As are some perl programmers. As both a perl programmer and a lisp
programer I have never had the need to use self modifing code. In fact I
would consider haveing to use s-m code as a sine that I have made a
mistate in my desinge.
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