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LISP programmers are much more into writing programs which build and execute routines on the fly.

As are some perl programmers. As both a perl programmer and a lisp programer I have never had the need to use self modifing code. In fact I would consider haveing to use s-m code as a sine that I have made a mistate in my desinge.

PERL is a pretty high-level language... how do you add sub's after running the code? -Brandon Crosby