language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?

[meow]

William Tanksley <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote:

> And BTW, the definition "if you can't change a running program then it's
> compiled..." is faulty -- there are many interpreted languages you can't
> change at runtime, and there are many Lisp compilers.

And of course, with a good debugger/monitor you can even change
running machine code if you want.