Semi-OT: Programming Question

[D. Hageman]

This will be my last post on the subject because I would hate to keep 
beating it to death.

Thought experiment:

We shall start with a program written in C since we all agree C is a 
compiled language.  We shall compile the source code and target it for the 
Mac platform.  This binary form will run on any modern Mac.  Assume I copy 
this program to my x86 linux machine.  I use something like PearPC to run this 
application on my linux machine.  At this point since the machine's "bare 
metal" is not directly running this code by your definition we can 
consider C an interpreted language.  I think you can see where I am going
with this ...

I do indeed consider java a compiled language.  In fact, I can even get 
hardware to run it natively.

You do make some good points about languages though. ;-)

I am sorry to hear about your job. :-(

Peace.


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Brian Densmore wrote:
>
> I'll agree with you that there is no interactive interpreter.
> But interpreted means it has to pass through an interpreter for
> the computer to use it, not through the programmer. So, I'll continue to
> say it is interpreted and not compiled, because that is what it is. I
> don't care how complex or how many bells and whistles it has in the end
> it's interpreted before it's usable by the bare metal. I learned how
> to program using machine language, and then assembly. I wrote a "compiler"
> inside GW-Basic in 1980. So I know a little something about compiled
> versus interpreted. I don't care what the MS salespitch says is compiled.
>
> So you can call it compiled since it's compiled into bytecode but then you
> have to call java compiled too.
>
> I disagree also that an interactive interpreter for C# would be useful. You could
> test out lines of code and procedures from inside it. I don't use C#, I haven't
> had the opportunity at work and have no need at home. At work it's all VB.
> Of course work is over, this job is gone and I probably won't be sending anymore email
> from this address.
>
> I understand your position, but still consider it wrong from a purely
> technical perspective.
>
> Peace,
> Brian "Jack" Densmore
>
> Jack of many trades, master of a few.
> Don't know jack about brain surgery,
> but if you hum a few bars I could argue about that one too.
> ;')
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