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Statically-typed object-oriented compiled languages, like Simula, Beta, Eiffel, are desirable because of the safety and efficiency of the resulting code. Dynamically-typed, interpreted languages, like Smalltalk, are useful as they provide the possibility of dynamically extending a program. In this paper, we reconcile the safety and efficiency goals of compiled languages with the benefits of interpreted languages by presenting an embeddable interpreter for a compiled language, namely Beta. The interpreter is designed to be embedded into any compiled Beta application, thus enabling it to accept dynamic extensions. This paper examines the Application Programmer's Interface to the interpreter and illustrate some aspects of our implementation.
Research supported by the Danish Research Programme for Informatics, grant number 5.26.18.19
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Malhotra, J. (1993). Dynamic extensibility in a statically-compiled object-oriented language. In: Nishio, S., Yonezawa, A. (eds) Object Technologies for Advanced Software. ISOTAS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 742. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57342-9_80
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