From: Oliver Schad <spam.entfernen.und.bring.gefaelligst.ein.bier.mit@...>
Date: 2011-01-14T01:10:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby is interpreted and scripting language?

Mike Stephens wrote:

> Tim Roberts wrote in post #974545:
>> The most popular Ruby implementations are interpreted,
>> but there is nothing that would prevent it from being compiled.
> 
> Surely you can't ultimately compile Ruby? The essence of it is it is
> dynamic so you don't know what the code will be until the point of
> execution?

That's pretty wrong of course from a theoretical point of view.

For example in C++ you can perfectly modifiy everything at runtime you 
have full access to all data structures and code. So you can add methods 
or kill them but you have to do it all by hand (find data structures in 
memory, reallocate memory, reorganize the data structures, insert 
machine code which you maybe did compile at runtime).

Regards
Oli

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