Top "Interpreted-language" questions

Questions about interpreted languages and program interpretation in general.

Why Java is both compiled and interpreted language when the JIT also compiles the bytecode?

I read that, a java source code is compiled into 'bytecode' then it is 'Compiled' again by JIT into 'machine …

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Performance Comparison of Shell Scripts vs high level interpreted langs (C#/Java/etc.)

First - This is not meant to be a 'which is better, ignorant nonionic war thread'... But rather, I generally …

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Do comments slow down an interpreted language?

I am asking this because I use Python, but it could apply to other interpreted languages as well (Ruby, PHP, …

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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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Where is the Ruby interpreter located?

I'm using Ruby 1.8.7 on OS X. Where is the Ruby interpreter located? My goal is to learn more about Ruby, …

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Why are so many web languages interpreted rather than compiled?

Why didn't languages such as C end up being using for web dev? Surely the speed increases from being compiled …

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Recursion overhead -- how serious is it?

Possible Duplicate: Is recursion ever faster than looping? I was first trained to program seriously in C, about 15 years ago. …

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Interpreted vs. Compiled Languages for Web Sites (PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, etc.)

I build database-driven web sites. Previously I have used Perl or PHP with MySQL. Now I am starting a big …

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Does it make sense to use Hungarian notation prefixes in interpreted languages?

First of all, I have taken a look at the following posts to avoid duplicate question. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1184717/…

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