We have something similar that is built into our Visage product that we call "Snippet Technology". It is totally language neutral, and at a pure programming level provides a recursive, extensible pre-compiler that can produce platform specific and optimised code from a single code base, but we also harness the facility to power things like our multi-lingual capabilities and web page generation.
However, I still cannot see where Will has explained why/what he will do once he has program code in a variable ... what is the end game/objective? Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage > Better by Design! -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 3:28 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Read yourself I saw on one PICK system, a precompiler language. It was the same as PICK/BASIC, but had a preprocessor to it. So, for example to get the user number on a Universe system you would use USER.NO=@USER.NO On a PICK system, it would be USER.NO=OCONV(0,'U50BB') Rather than write it into the program to check what system it is on (since sometimes it could be different functions or statements used that never even compile), then would do something like: USER.NO=%GET USERNO% The precompiler would look at the control table and translate the '%GET USERNO%' to the appropriate statement, then compile. I've seen software that was so generic it would run on any version of Multivalue system and sometimes even non-Multivalue systems. Robert Norman ROBERT NORMAN AND ASSOCIATES 23441 Golden Springs Dr., #289, Diamond Bar, CA 91765 (323) 285-7272, (951) 541-1668 i...@keyway.net http://universe-basic-programming.webstarts.com/index.html http://users.keyway.net/~ice/ http://www.affordablemultivalueprogramming.i8.com/ Computer programming & software development in Universe BASIC for Rocket Universe, in PICK/BASIC for Rocket D3, in UNIBASIC for Rocket Unidata, in R/BASIC (REVELATION BASIC) for REVELATION TECHOLOGIES REVELATION, in JBASIC (JBC or JBASE BASIC) for TEMENOS JBASE, in DATA/BASIC for Northgate REALITY, in MV BASIC (Multivalue Basic) for Intersystems Cache Multivalue, and QMBASIC for Ladybridge OPENQM (QM). On 5/12/2014 4:33 PM, Adrian Overs wrote: > What problem are you trying to solve by doing so? > After all it's not rocket science (pardon the pun) to OPEN "BP" TO > BP.FV THEN READ R.PROG FROM BP.FV, PROG.ID ELSE ... Whatever END > > Sent from my iPad > > On 13 May 2014, at 6:54 am, Wjhonson <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > > > Does anyone have a BASIC program, that will open it's own code in a variable ? > So something like this > > GOSUB RETURN.A.LOCAL.FILE.AND.KEY.FOR.ME > > READ THIS.PROGRAM FROM F.LOCALFILENAME, K.PROGRAMKEY .... > > the program reads itself. > > Does anyone have a program like that? > > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
