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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 20:30:08 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <20241013093004.251@kylheku.com>,
Kaz Kylheku  <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
>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.

Indeed; this is what the Moscow ML compiler does.

	- Dan C.