Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!leah!wfh58 From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx Subject: Re: Rexx compiler(s) Message-ID: <3574@leah.Albany.Edu> Date: 24 Aug 90 18:49:12 GMT References: <90230.092947BOYDJ@QUCDN.BITNET> <90231.095318BOYDJ@QUCDN.BITNET> <26d00a0a-3d.4comp.lang.rexx-1@tronsbox.xei.com> <90234.100626RMCCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> Reply-To: wfh58@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (William F. Hammond) Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, SUNYA, Albany, NY Lines: 23 In article <90234.100626RMCCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> RMCCU@CUNYVM (Robert Chambers) writes: > . . . >Interpret of course will not work, but for the most part any programmer >worth his/her salt can come up with ingenous ways around using this function. > . . . Back in my days with BASIC I always wanted an ingenius way to read in a function string like (X**2 + 1)*sqrt(exp(X)) as *input*, i.e., stdin, at execution time and then be able to compute values of the function without having to write reams of code. (It's not too bad if the function can be assumed to be a polynomial.) With INTERPRET it's child's play, and it's great! Every interpreted language should have the ability to compute a string and then execute it as a statement in its own language. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- William F. Hammond Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics 518-442-4625 SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222 hammond@leah.albany.edu wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet ----------------------------------------------------------------------