language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?

[Brent A Ellingson]

Emile van Sebille (emile at fenx.com) wrote:

: From my perspective, <25+years business basic> it's interpretive if it
: politely stops when it hits a bug, and waits for you to fix the program
: and continue.

: If-you-can't-change-a-running-program-then-it's-compiled-ly yrs

But this definition fails for many Lisp environments, which in nearly
all cases natively compile code before it is executed, but are still
as "interactive" as you describe.

It is difficult to make any meaningful connection between "interactive" 
and "interpreted".

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Brent Ellingson (bellings at badlands.NoDak.edu)
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." 
                                                 -- Leo Tolstoy