Interpreters were used as early as 1952 to ease programming within the limitations of computers at the time (e.g. a shortage of … See more

An interpreter usually consists of a set of known commands it can execute, and a list of these commands in the order a programmer wishes to execute them. Each … See more

Programs written in a high-level language are either directly executed by some kind of interpreter or converted into machine code by a compiler (and assembler See more

Bytecode interpreters
There is a spectrum of possibilities between interpreting and compiling, depending on the amount of analysis performed before the program is executed. For example, Emacs Lisp is compiled to bytecode, … See more

• Interpreters are frequently used to execute command languages, and glue languages since each operator executed in command language is usually an invocation of a complex routine such as an editor or compiler.
• Self-modifying code can easily … See more

• BASIC interpreter
• Command-line interpreter
• Compiled language
• Dynamic compilation See more

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