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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)
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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