Right-to-left (was: Re: entry at other than main)

[Raymond Dunn]

In article <818 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at 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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