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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:01:27 +0100
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Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:47:06 +0100
> Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> boring babbled:
>>Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>> Interpreter? Perl has some kind of compiler in it, right?
>>
>>The Perl compiler turns Perl source code into a set of (that's a
>
> Does it produce a standalone binary as output? No, so its an intepreter
> not a compiler. However unlike the python interpreter its non interactive
> making it an even less attractive option these days.

The perl debugger offers an interactive environment (with line editing support if
the necessary packages/ modules are available). It can be invoked with a
suitable 'script argument' to use it without actually debugging
something, eg,

perl -de 0