Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Translator, Compiler, Interpreter and Java Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 21:33:31 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 1lM8B9/qdtKBc/uIRK2Gjw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32810 On 10/3/2015 10:36 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 10/2/2015 10:39 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 9/27/2015 11:07 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> On 9/27/2015 9:05 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>>> On 9/25/2015 8:36 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote: >>>>> On 09/25/2015 12:37 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote: >>>>> Interpreter - An Interpreter is a translator from languages to >>>>> languages. >>>>> This is inspired by the comments of Donald Knuth in the few >>>>> self-effacing >>>>> leading paragraphs of his article "Literate Programming" available >>>>> here: >>>>> > >>>> An interpreter does not translate to anything instead it executes >>>> something. >>> And once again you are wrong. Although I might differ on some minor >>> points, Jeff is much closer to being accurate than you are. >> >> Feel free to think that interpreters translate from one language to >> another, but that is pretty far from reality. > Once again you show your lack of understanding of even the most basic > programming concepts. I suggest you actually read Jeff's references. Have you? It does not attempt to define what interpreted is at all. Arne