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I'm not aware of any real interpreter languages anymore.

Pretty much all of the shells (bash, ash, zsh, etc.) are still real interpreters, AFAIAA.

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Re^6: A Perl interpreter written in Perl?
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 16, 2025 at 20:10 UTC
    Yes, I remember Emacs Lisp also having this fine differences depending on interpretation vs compilation.

    So these very old languages still hanging around are candidates for real interpretation.

    Update

    Found this interesting comparison between bash and perl execution on SO

    is-bash-compiled-or-interpreted

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

    Update

    Maybe I was biased to consider bash etc as not real languages, because the idea of writing apps with several thousand LOCs gives me shivers.

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