On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Peter Nagy <pet...@riseup.net> wrote: > The distinction isn't that clear though, e.g. many scripting languages can > byte compile the sources. And the "no obvious reasons" is as usual speed, be > it runtime or network. An OSS website can still publish the real, readable > sources with steps how to use it, just like compiled languages do. I wouldn't > be so quick with the categorization. Compiling is a type of preprocessing > step and many other languages have other such steps.
True. Looks like I just countered a false dichotomy with another false dichotomy (scripted => run directly from script / compiled => you can't). Duh.
