Top "Compiled-language" questions

Any programming language that is primarily implemented by using a compiler, i.e. programs written in the language are translated into machine code before execution.

Is Ruby a scripting language or an interpreted language?

I just noticed that in the wikipedia page of Ruby, this language is defined as interpreted language. I understood that …

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Is Ruby really an interpreted language if all of its implementations are compiled into bytecode?

In the chosen answer for this question about Blue Ruby, Chuck says: All of the current Ruby implementations are compiled …

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Is Clojure compiled or interpreted?

I read somewhere Clojure is compiled. Is it really compiled, like Java or Scala, rather than interpreted, like Jython or …

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