language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?

[Martijn Faassen]

Frank Mitchell <frankm at bayarea.net> wrote:
> Stephan Houben wrote in message ...
>>m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen) writes:

Hm, confusing misattribution, I didn't write what's coming. You should've
snipped this. :) Stephan wrote it.

>>Of course, Sun marketed the fact that Java used bytecode as if it was
>>something revolutionary. "No, it is not interpreted, it is compiled to
>>Byte Code!" Of course, all those other languages which had been called
>>"interpreted" where actually compiled to byte code since the
>>beginning of time. Byte-code compilation is really as old as the Sun. ;-)

Regards,

Martijn