Execute ???

[SMcNeill]

And one of the good things with these experimental concepts of Steve's(tm), is that many times, they either get added to the language itself eventually, or at least a portion of them do.  Where all my custom precompiler commands started with '# back in the day, we now have $ commands for the precompiler -- $IF instead of my old '#IF and $LET instead of '#LET...   I never got around to working in a $EXECUTE into the language, as the IDE we have built in translates and compiles code with each and every keystroke we make, checking syntax and other such stuff, which means it wouldn't make a singular call out to shell back to itself to  execute some command and insert the output into the IDE once.  Instead, it'd try to do that with EVERY keystroke, and you want to talk about a program lagging up and freezing almost instantly....   THAT'S one way to do it!

I know....    From Experience.