[pydotorg-www] FWD: Meta description - interpreted?

[Aahz]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>
> It is not clear that Python is a scripting language if this part is removed.

Python is not "a scripting language".

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> 
>> Any objections?
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from James Tatum <jtatum at gmail.com> -----
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:24:18 -0700
>>> From: James Tatum <jtatum at gmail.com>
>>> To: webmaster at python.org
>>> Subject: Meta description - interpreted?
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The meta description on the home page reads as follows:
>>>
>>> Home page for Python, an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented,
>> extensible
>>> programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of
>> clarity and
>>> versatility, and is free and comprehensively ported.
>>>
>>> I think the word interpreted should perhaps be removed. How a Python
>>> implementation executes code is really not a function of the language
>>> itself, and as far as I know none of the implementations (including
>>> CPython) are not strictly interpreted anyway - most use some sort of
>>> bytecode and a VM.
>>
>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>
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