From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Interpreted languages.
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 13:11:50 -0700
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Bryan Murphy wrote:

> God, I'm sick of beating this dead horse already, but Assembly
> is compiled to byte code.  Byte code is interpreted by the
> processor, so in a sense byte code is interpreted and EVERYTHING
> is interpreted.

No.  To "compile" something is to turn it into machine language.  If the
process of turning source code into a binary format leads to machine
language which is then directly executed by the processor, then it has
been compiled.  If it doesn't end up with machine language, then the
result is bytecode or a tokenized format and is interpreted.

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