In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher Subich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Out of curiosity, where would you classify interpreters for secondary
>app-specific programming languages? Specifically, mud-client stored
>procedures (triggers, timed events) seem to correspond very naturally to
>generating the python code required to execute them in advance, then
>compile()ing and storing the compiled code for repeated execution.
1. If you know enough to ask the question, you're
a consenting adult, and equipped to deal with
the consequences.
2. Hey, that's the whole *idea* of an extension
language. Go forth and Python happily, even
exec() with righteousness.
3. But Python *is* an unsafe language in such
uses--one of which I'm exceptionally fond, but
undeniably unsafe.
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