Re^5: A Perl interpreter written in Perl?

[hippo]

I'm not aware of any real interpreter languages anymore.

Pretty much all of the shells (bash, ash, zsh, etc.) are still real interpreters, AFAIAA.

[LanX]

Yes, I remember Emacs Lisp also having this fine differences depending on interpretation vs compilation.

So these very old languages still hanging around are candidates for real interpretation.

Update

Found this interesting comparison between bash and perl execution on SO

is-bash-compiled-or-interpreted

Update

Maybe I was biased to consider bash etc as not real languages, because the idea of writing apps with several thousand LOCs gives me shivers.