Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:17:59 GMT, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed >the following in comp.lang.python: > >> And again, I never said that it did. CPython is an interpreter. the >> user's code is never translated into machine language. > > Using that definition, the UCSD P-code Pascal and Java are also not >"compilers" -- all three create files containing instructions for a >non-hardware virtual machine.
Right. UCSD p-code Pascal was almost always implemented as an interpreter. I would be surprised if anyone argued that it was a compiler. However, I thought Java was usually JIT compiled to machine language. Am I mistaken? -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
