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From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Right-to-left (was: Re: entry at other than main)
Message-ID: <673@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 29 Aug 89 16:26:04 GMT
References: <19173@mimsy.UUCP> <207600032@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <19218@mimsy.UUCP> <10731@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <230@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1989Aug26.221107.25606@utzoo.uucp> <818@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
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In article <818@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>.... there are lisp systems without an interpreter at all -
>when you type in an expression, they compile it and execute the code
>immediately.

This just shows that a very hazy line separates "compilers" and "interpreters".

There are many of us who would still call such an incremental compiler an
interpreter.

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