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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: A comment on language wars.
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Date: 12 Mar 91 15:16:16 GMT
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In article <PCG.91Mar11163937@aberdb.test.aber.ac.uk> pcg@test.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Antonio Grandi) writes:
> Quoting myself from long ago: *all* programs are hierarchies of
> interpreters.

You're jumping from languages to programs here. Some languages have an
interpreter effectively built into the core of the language definition
itself. Others require you hand-craft each interpreter you want to build
into a program.
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