Program, Application, and Software

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/18/2010 9:05 PM, Mark Wooding wrote:

>> Maybe, once upon a time, there was a meaningful distinction to be made
>> between purely interpreted languages and purely compiled languages.
>
> No, there never was; only between interpreting and compiling
> implementations.

Right. I remember using a C *interpreter* about 25 years ago on Unix. 
And on Windows, as I remember, the Borland TurboC system let one 
compile, link, and run with one command.

A language is just a language, not an implementation.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy