From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:18:07 -0400
. . . perl is both an interpreter and compiler. this is a common
statement but what does it mean? why are somethings only an
interpreter or compiler? why is script used when perl is a
programming language?
Lisp goes even farther down the road of blurring the boundary between
interpreter and compiler than Perl does. You can even run code at read
time, when the program is being parsed by the compiler (or interpreter).
Some people aren't aware that Lisp is primarily a compiled language
(which I bet is also true for Perl). Even so, nobody thinks Lisp is a
"scripting language." Go figure.
-- Bob Rogers
http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/
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