Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

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?

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The Perl compiler turns Perl source code into a set of (that's a

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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