Python is the best and most popular general purpose scripting language; the universal scripting language

[Roy Smith]

simoninusa2001 at yahoo.co.uk (simo) wrote:
> I always thought "scripting language" means interpreted instead of
> compiled into machine code (not bytecode).

When Apple first came out with the PowerPC processors, they emulated the 
old 68k instruction set in software, so you could continue to run 68k 
binaries.  Did those old programs suddenly become scripts instead of 
programs because they were no longer running on the hardware? :-)