Python vs. Lisp -- please explain

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:26:20 +0000, Alexander Schmolck wrote:

> Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> writes:
> 
>> DH a écrit :
>> (snip)
>> > It is by design. Python is dynamically typed. It is essentially an
>> > interpreted scripting language like javascript or ruby or perl,
>> 
>> 
>> It's not a "scripting" language, and it's not interpreted.
> 
> Of course it is. What do you think happens to the bytecode? 

By that logic, all languages are interpreted. What do you think happens to
the machinecode?


-- 
Steven.