Timeline for What properties of a programming language make compilation impossible?
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| Jan 17, 2016 at 22:46 | comment | added | Nikos M. | @DavidRicherby and Raphael, i say that the author of this post implies (what i describe in my answer) as the self-modification feature which of course is a language construct by design and not an artifact of some specific program | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 11:24 | comment | added | Raphael | @DavidRicherby I guess the use case tyleri has in mind is interactive interpretation, i.e. code entered at runtime. I agree, though, that that is out of the scope of the question since it's not a feature of the language. | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 9:28 | comment | added | David Richerby | "I lost the source code" is not a property of a programming language but of a particular program, so that doesn't answer the question. And you definitely need a citation for the claim that avoiding loss of the source code is "the primary reason why interpreted languages exist", or even a reason why they exist. | |
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| Nov 11, 2014 at 4:00 | history | answered | tylerl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |