On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > >What I understand from perl is that it compiles the source first then > >executes everytime you run a perl srcipt (or program). > > But Perl is still primarily interpreted language despite this, di ba? > Kasi kayang ma-invoke ang Perl scripts on a shell (the #! is an > interpreter directive... but hey, ganon din ang Python scripts na .py, > di ba?). > > Now that that is clear, how about Python? does it run on its own VM > (o hindi? ano naman silbi ng intermediary p-code nya kung walang VM to > run on unless ang goal ng python kasama rin portability ng p-code > pero machine-dependent ang nilalabas ng interpreter?) > .pyc files are machine independent. pyc files are Python compiled scripts. If you want to, you can also use JPython to come out with Java binaries.
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