language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?

[William Tanksley]

On 1 Sep 1999 15:30:16 GMT, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>Ian Clarke <I.Clarke at strs.co.uk> wrote:

>>> What are the most popular interpreted languages around?

>> I guess Perl is the most popular interpreted language today, but Python
>> is growing in popularity.

>I think Java can compete in popularity with Perl. And Java's (usually)
>interpreted.

According to Larry's charts, Java sweeps Perl in overall numbers.  I have
no real idea why.

Java's not interpreted, though -- I've never seen ANY Java interpreter.
Java is always compiled, usually to bytecode, and then the bytecode
machine is emulated.

>Martijn

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-William "Billy" Tanksley