Bartosz Wucke wrote:
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There's even a special movement that connects profits of compiled and nterpreted languages - quite a few such like Perl: From user's standpoint, interpreter (the program is its own source, written just like your average script, can't live standalone, needs the "interpreter binary" to run etc.) From system's standpoint, the program is compiled. The trick is very fast compilation performed on startup. When you type "perl myprogram.pl", perl compiles the source "myprogram.pl", into memory and executes it, and upon the end of the execution, removes the binary from the memory, all you have left is the source.

Then REXX is a bit smarter (at least on /2). It "compiles" the code when you run the script, like you described. But the compiled code is saved, so next time you run the script it's faster.

Best regards,

Mikkel C. Simonsen