begin  quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:02:59PM -0800:
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> Even assembly could modify itself at run time.

Especially assembly/machine code.

Self-modifying code is neither new nor especially desirable.

Code modifying other code is not especially new either -- that's what a
linker does.

> So in a sense "macros" (or at least self modifying code) even predates
> Fortran and Lisp!

A macro system is VERY useful when writing assembly.

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