in reply to End of Native Code?
The success of interpreted languages dates from well before the time personal computing power increased.
I still remember the time when compiling a program could take several hours, so we jumped with joy when you could just type and "run" your BASIC program on any Z80 based computer without waiting, whereas your typical FORTRAN program had to spend the night in the mainframe and produced a stack of paper in the morning with nothing but error messages.
IMHO the succes of interpreted languages is their short reaction times and not the strength of the processor they run on: I programmed computer games in BASIC on a TRS-80 and they ran smoother than "Oblivion" on a 2 GHz monster.
CountZero
"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law
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