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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:15:57 -0000 (UTC)
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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.