language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?

[Brent A Ellingson]

Mr Kelvin Lee (kelvin at scientist.com) wrote:

: What are the most popular interpreted languages around?

I was under the impression that the most popular interpreted language,
by a /very/ large margin, is Intel 80386 machine code.  From the small
amount I've read, I was led to believe that all modern PCs basically
have specialized RISC chips which do nothing but run a small, thin, very 
fast x86 interpreter all day, every day.

That may be simplifying things a lot, but it might give you some idea
how silly the distinction between "interpreted" vs. "compiled" is.

-- 
Brent Ellingson (bellings at badlands.NoDak.edu)
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." 
                                                 -- Leo Tolstoy