[pydotorg-www] FWD: Meta description - interpreted?

[anatoly techtonik]

It is not clear that Python is a scripting language if this part is removed.

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> Any objections?
>
> ----- Forwarded message from James Tatum <jtatum at gmail.com> -----
>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:24:18 -0700
> > From: James Tatum <jtatum at gmail.com>
> > To: webmaster at python.org
> > Subject: Meta description - interpreted?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The meta description on the home page reads as follows:
> >
> > Home page for Python, an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented,
> extensible
> > programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of
> clarity and
> > versatility, and is free and comprehensively ported.
> >
> > I think the word interpreted should perhaps be removed. How a Python
> > implementation executes code is really not a function of the language
> > itself, and as far as I know none of the implementations (including
> > CPython) are not strictly interpreted anyway - most use some sort of
> > bytecode and a VM.
>
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