language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?
William Tanksley
wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net
Thu Sep 2 02:15:30 EDT 1999
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:51:00 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote:
>Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com> wrote in message
>> So, aside from the differences in how you get from source to running
>> program, depending on your definitions, they can all be called
>> compiled or interpreted languages.
>From my perspective, <25+years business basic> it's interpretive if it
>politely stops when it hits a bug, and waits for you to fix the program
>and continue.
You see, that's what I call an "interactive" language.
I don't have much use for the word "interpreted". It used to mean a lot,
back when only a few mmethods of compilation and interpretation were
commonly used. Its meaning and use are now completely gone.
>If-you-can't-change-a-running-program-then-it's-compiled-ly yrs
>Emile van Sebille
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-William "Billy" Tanksley
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