Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:01:27 +0100
Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> boring babbled:

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.

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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,
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perl -de 0

I didn't know about that, I stand corrected on that point.