Top "Interpreter" questions

An interpreter is a program that executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming language.

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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How come when I press the Up or Down Arrow keys in the Python interpreter I get ^[[A or ^[[B instead of history?

Possible Duplicate: Python shell: Arrow keys do not work on remote machine I have no idea why history won't work …

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Python 3.2 - GIL - good/bad?

Python 3.2 ALPHA is out. From the Change Log, it appears the GIL has been entirely rewritten. A few questions: Is …

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PHP interpreter gets undefined constant OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS with ADODB

I wrote a php script that must be run on the php interpreter (Without Apache), which uses the adodb library …

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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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Printing Unicode from Scala interpreter

When using the scala interpreter (i.e. running the command 'scala' on the commandline), I am not able to print …

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Reload in Python interpreter

$ python >>> import myapp >>> reload(myapp) <module 'myapp' from 'myapp.pyc'> >>&…

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Drop into interpreter during arbitrary scala code location

I come from a Python background, where at any point in my code I can add import pdb; pdb.set_…

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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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Is there an interactive interpreter for Java?

I want to execute java commands interactively from shell: is there a way to do so?

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