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      2 months ago

      Interpreted languages have classically been called scripting languages, it’s pedantic but it has use and meaning in the industry.

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        2 months ago

        There is no purpose to mislabeling something and speaking inaccurately in a professional setting.

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          No, it’s not. It’s objectively inaccurate.

          A computer does not care whether the instructions it’s executing were compiled ahead of time or interpreted on the fly and they literally never have.