language interpreters/ interpreted languages weaknesses?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ian Clarke <I.Clarke at strs.co.uk> wrote:
> Python code is almost always distributed in source form, the
> interface presented to the user is one where the Python
> interpreter takes Python source and runs it.

that's what *you* think.  lots of people are running
Python programs without ever noticing, and without
ever seeing the source code.  you might have done
that, too.

(people might not be posting a lot of byte codes to
this newsgroup, but that's not the case over in java
land either...)

> You are very quick to dismiss the power of social convention

your arguments sound more like quantum physics
to me, but that's another story...

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