Warp wrote:
>   I think there exist full-fledged C interpreters, though.

Yep. I used them back when 512K of RAM was a lot of memory and linking took 
your lunchtime.

It was very handy to relink the interpreter with the libraries you had 
working and then work on the next level of your abstraction on top of that. 
(E.g., link the interpreter with your curses-like library while writing form 
handling, relink with form handling while writing the calculations you were 
configuring via the forms, etc.)

Nowadays we do things more powerful than C as interpreters and just throw 
shovels full of CPU cycles at them. :-)

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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