[RPL/2] self compiling ?

[DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre]

Adrian Blake wrote:
> I am not sure if I have asked this in the past.
> 
> I wish to have a list, a long list, within a program, then compile it, then execute it. Self generation of code.
> 
> Can this be done,  some suggestions.

Yes. I did this in Prolog and RPL. Works fine.

In fact, doable in almost all script langages.

The "tcc" compiler allows to do this for C.

Generating RPL from RPL is something I used to do on HP48.

Generating machine/system programs (compile RPL into a system executable
file) may be more tricky. I usually use Makefils for this.

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