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

[anatoly techtonik]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> 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".
>

Your statement is well confirmed by the top voted answer, and I agree. ;)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101055/when-is-a-language-considered-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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