Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 28th Jul 2004 17:23 UTC
Most of us that work in the IT industry have been around for a long time. We started out in our parents basement writing code in some BASIC environment, ussually Commodore BASIC or QBASIC. Do you remember how thrilling it was? Your first program and it was something extremely basic but the point was it worked. Some of us got hooked right away and kept trying to solve problems and added more and more pushing the capabilities of whatever language we used. As we got older the environments progressed and the programming tools progressed and got more complicated.
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. You are talking about the advantages of an interpreted, scripting language, over a compiled language like C++
1) There is no such thing as an interpreted language or a compiled language. There are only interpreted implementations or compiled implementations.
2) I use Python as an example only because people are familiar with it. Python achieves interactivity by being interpreted, but in general implementations don't have to do this. If you have an incremental compiler, one that only recompiles the parts of the program that have changed, you can generate native-code fast enough for an interactive prompt.