Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:49:15 -0000 (UTC)
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> boring babbled:

On 2024-10-12, Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote:
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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.

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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.

He's painted himself into a corner. Will be interesting to see how gets
out of it.