On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:32:28 -0800, Alf P. Steinbach <al...@start.no>
wrote:
This also seems religious. It's like in Norway it became illegal to
market lemon soda, since umpteen years ago it's soda with lemon
flavoring. This has to do with the *origin* of the citric acid, whether
natural or chemist's concoction, no matter that it's the same chemical.
So, some people think that it's wrong to talk about interpreted
languages, hey, it should be a "language designed for interpretation",
or better yet, "dynamic language", or bestest, "language with dynamic
flavor". And slow language, oh no, should be "language whose current
implementations are perceived as somewhat slow by some (well, all)
people", but of course, that's just silly.
Perhaps I'm missing the point of what you're saying but I don't see why
you're conflating interpreted and dynamic here? Javascript is unarguably a
dynamic language, yet Chrome / Safari 4 / Firefox 3.5 all typically JIT
it. Does that make Javascript non-dynamic, because it's compiled? What
about Common Lisp, which is a compiled language when it's run with CMUCL
or SBCL?
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