[DougHogg]

Originally posted by Jeremy_Mc
PBASIC isn't compiled to native code. That's programming.

PBASIC is interpreted so it's a scripting language, similar to JAVA in that they both are tokenized into byte code and then interpreted.

*jeremy

For quite a while after the BASIC programming language arrived on the scene, all the different versions of it were interpreted. Of course, the programs were interpreted into machine language. The only difference between them and a compiled language was that a program was converted to machine language every time it was run, instead of once when it was compiled.

Anyway, it is just semantics. Per my definition, if you are controlling a computer with some text which includes a series of steps and possibly loops and branches, you are programming it.

However, it is also clear to me that someone else could be operating on a different definition which would be equally valid.