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Originally posted by Jnadke
You're right, and wrong.
While it can be debated whether interpreted languages are real programming language, JAVA is actually a compiled language.
It's actually compiled to a machine code called BYTECODE, which was originally designed to run on a specialized processor for controlling kitchen appliances. SUN took the easy route and made an interpreter so it could be run on many other processors without having to be re-compiled.
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aye yes. holy crap how could i forget the kitchen appliance idea *shudder*
i can see where java would be compiled...but i don't see where many other languages that were mentioned are not scripting (php, asp, perl, and javascript in specific)
maybe i'm just severely confused or misinformed, but i'm pretty sure those aren't programming languages in their purest sense
*jeremy