Chris Mellon wrote: [snip] > I don't think it does, though. Firstly, as a definition it relies on > the environment the application will be running under and therefore > can't be considered to describe just a language. Secondly, by that > definition Java is an interpreted language which is at odds with the > common definition. > > I've encountered a C scripting environment that works by using GCC to > compile each line as it is encountered, doing some magic to keep a > working compilation environment around. > > Interpreted? Compiled? >
There is also the wonderful C interpreter cint: http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html so obviously C must be an interpreted language :-) Cheers, Carl Friedrich Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
