Re: Optimizations and Efficiency

[Abigail]

Well, yes, but you should have qualified that, as most people will think that "interpreted code" is something like what the shell does, and that Java is compiled, while with your definition Java would be interpreted as well.

-- Abigail

[tilly]

I think most people casually use definition 2, not definition 1, of interpreted these days. In other words they call Perl interpreted and think that means that you execute Perl by running it through an interpreter of some sort.

In other words interpreted like JavaScript, Python and recent versions of TCL. (With version 8 TCL moved to a byte-code compiler.)

As for whether there are people who call Java an interpreted language, well they aren't very hard to find...