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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
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On 2024-10-11, Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org <Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org> wrote:
> Irrelevant. Lot of interpreters do partial compilation and the JVM does it
> on the fly. A proper compiler writes a standalone binary file to disk.

You might want to check those goalposts again. You can easily make a
"proper compiler" which just writes a canned interpreter executable to
disk, appending to it the program source code.

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