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Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.szaf.org!inka.de!mips.inka.de!.POSTED.localhost!not-for-mail From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:49:15 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <slrnvgldkr.31hh.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <uu54la$3su5b$6@dont-email.me> <87edbtz43p.fsf@tudado.org> <0d2cnVzOmbD6f4z7nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> <uusur7$2hm6p$1@dont-email.me> <vdf096$2c9hb$8@dont-email.me> <87a5fdj7f2.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> <ve83q2$33dfe$1@dont-email.me> <87wmighu4i.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> <ve8s6d$3725r$1@dont-email.me> <87o73rj3sr.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> <20241010120827.867@kylheku.com> <87frp3itsk.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> <ve9mrh$3aiao$2@dont-email.me> <87jzee3ded.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> <vebffc$3n6jv$1@dont-email.me> <vec3hi$3q4ms$2@dont-email.me> <vedcp9$3nu6$1@dont-email.me> <87h69hfnmz.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com> Injection-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:49:15 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: lorvorc.mips.inka.de; posting-host="localhost:::1"; logging-data="99890"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@mips.inka.de" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Bytes: 2182 Lines: 15 On 2024-10-12, Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote: > Indeed. As far as I know the term, an interpreter is something which > reads text from a file, parses it an checks it for syntax errors > and then executes the code as soon as enough of it has been gathered to > allow for execution of something, ie, a complete statement. This read, > check and parse, execute cycle is repeated until the program > terminates. I don't really want to participate in this discussion, but what you're saying there is that all those 1980s home computer BASIC interpreters, which read and tokenized a program before execution, were actually compilers. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de