From: ehog.hedge@googlemail.com   
      
   glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:   
      
   > So where do you draw a line between "true compiler" and "just an   
   > interpreter?"   
      
   There is no line.   
      
   There is more-compilery and more-interpretery, and they're more or   
   less inverses, but there's no objective distinction with all the   
   compilery things on one side and all the interpretery things on the   
   other.   
      
   It's my feeling that arguments about where that line is are concealing   
   more interesting arguments about the details.  It's the kind of   
   question that makes me ask, "if you had the answer, what would you do   
   with it?"   
      
   If you knew where the line between "true compiler" and "an   
   interpreter" ["just" is pejorative] was, what would you do   
   differently?   
   --   
   Chris "allusive" Dollin   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)