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Subject: Re: perfomance and regular expressions
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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote:
> Anybody know any languages that allow compile-time (and/or link-time)
> computations using (most of?) the same language?  I've often desired the
> feature.  (I suppose some preprocessor like m4 could handle some of it.)

LISP.  Forth.  Smalltalk.  Prolog.  BASIC.  Oh yeah... Java.

	"And everything old is new again"
				-- The Bard

-- Terry

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