language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?

[Garrett G. Hodgson]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

> The only thing that makes Java "more compiled" than Python or Perl is
> that you have to explicitly run a separate compiler over the source to
> create a .class file.  

that's the real beauty of java.  all the convenience of having to go
through a separate compilation step, combined with the blistering
performance of an interpreted language.

what a deal.

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