 Interpreted programming language (source code)

by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)

= Interpreted programming language

Interestingly, the very first programming language with an actual implementation was interpreted: <Short Code (programming-language)> in 1950.

This is not surprising, as interpreters are easier to write than compilers.

And just like modern scripting languages, it reduced execution speed by about 50x.

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