language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?

[Paul Prescod]

David Oppenheimer wrote:
> 
> I am sure that many of you can
> relate to having run into a page where a Java applet is loading and been quite
> irritated that while this Java code is loading (being interpreted or the JVM
> is firing up or whatever) that your browser (and your cursor too) will lock-up
> until the applet is ready to run.  

There are by now dozens of impementations of Java and your complaint is
with a single one (or maybe two, if you have had the same problem with
Internet Explorer and Netscape). Seriously this has nothing to do with
Java *the language*. A bad implementation of Python could do the same
thing.

 Paul Prescod