POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Programming language development : Re: Programming language development Server Time
5 Sep 2024 23:17:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Programming language development  
From: clipka
Date: 3 Oct 2009 18:25:58
Message: <4ac7cf76$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New schrieb:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Erlang? Tcl? LISP?
> 
> Actually, Ada can do this too, I'm pretty sure, even without using its 
> OO features.

"Non-OO mainstream (imperative) language"?

These languages all don't appear to fit that bill.


> If you look at the source for Wings3D, you can see where there are 
> pieces of code that basically say "hey, there's a new version of the 
> code, load it and run it *without* closing my window, saving the shape 
> i'm working on, etc." I.e., the developer could find a bug while 
> working, fix the bug, and keep working except with the new code running.
> 
> OO isn't going to give you *that*.

I never said it does.

Though it wouldn't stand in the way of that. This is primarily a matter 
of the run-time system, not the programming language (let alone software 
design) paradigm.


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