language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?
Martijn Faassen
m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Thu Sep 2 06:21:31 EDT 1999
William Tanksley <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote:
[snip]
> Java's not interpreted, though -- I've never seen ANY Java interpreter.
> Java is always compiled, usually to bytecode, and then the bytecode
> machine is emulated.
Um, I was under the impression that this is what a modern interpreter
actually does? Parse the source to bytecode and execute the bytecode.
After all, Python does the same, right?
Regards,
Martijn
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