Phoenix.pm: Interesting paper comparing programming languages

Dave Warner davewarner98 at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 9 10:52:58 CDT 2000


Python is also written to bytecode (.pyc) files and
then executed.  The bytecodes (like those of Java's)
are architecture and os independent.  If you are old
(like me) you may remember UCSD Pascal (on the Apple
II), which was one of the first pseudo-code compilers.

 
               Dave Warner



--- Doug Miles <doug.miles at bpxinternet.com> wrote:
> Bryan Lane wrote:
> > 
> > Very informative.  It seemed to be an in depth
> study.  I thought Java should
> > be considered a scripting language.  Perhaps I
> just don't know enough about
> > Java.
> 
> I'm guessing since Java's bytecode form is written
> to disk, and then
> that is executed, instead of just one step, and
> since it is not a true
> system binary like C/C++, it was put into a separate
> category.  Does
> anyone know if any of the other scripting languages
> are compiled into
> bytecode and then executed like perl, or do they use
> some other method?
> 
> -- 
> - Doug
> 
> "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell
> the 
> word you first thought of."
> --Burt Bacharach


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