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mmmm this is a problem of the engineers not the language though =\

Overuse of dynamically generated functions is possible in any high level language. The worst offender that I had seen was a PHP wordpress plugin that stored a custom function per row in the DB brought to life via `eval`.

Those were the days.



> Overuse of dynamically generated functions is possible in any high level language.

A large number of high-level languages resolve functions at compile time, rejecting programs containing references to functions that don't exist.


No language in which dynamically generated functions exist does so, because if it did it would be impossible to use them.

I will agree that dynamically generated functions are not overused in languages in which they cannot be expressed at all, but...




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