[RPL/2] self compiling ?

[Adrian Blake]

What I would like is an example of how it is done.

It is easy to create a text file of source code and then issue some system commands to compile and execute. If this is to be done 
many times most of the time and resources is spent with system commands and compiling. This is especially true if the programs are 
small and there are many to be recompiled many times.

Can RPL/2 do this in a simple manner?

There is a programming language called Erlang which allows the programmer to modify and add to the executing code. The allows 
continuous upgrades without stopping the program.

Adrian

DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre wrote:
> 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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