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10 Oct 2024 03:15:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Build #86 (user-defined functions)  
From: Darren New
Date: 17 Oct 2008 14:12:58
Message: <48f8d5aa$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Heh. Crazy language... I thought computer science experts concluded, 
> like, 30 years ago that self-modifying code is actually an Extremely Bad 
> Idea? (Originally of course everybody thought it was "cool"...)

It's only "self-modifying code" if you modify it after it has already 
been run.

Computer scientists quite like code-generating macros. They have some 
pretty sophisticated ones, called "compilers".

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)


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