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rob05c  ·  3433 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dynamically Declaring Functions and Methods

It can. Any homoiconic language can. Or in other words, any language with 'eval.' Ruby, Python, Javascript, Lua, Bash—almost every scripting language. But you should be very, very careful with eval ('loadstring' in Lua). Evaluating arbitrary text as code is a huge attack vector. That's why I recommended embedding a scripting language, where you can easily lock it down.