Interpreted Languages
Interpreted languages are programming languages in which programs may be executed from source code form, by an interpreter. Theoretically, any language can be compiled or interpreted, so the term *interpreted language* generally refers to languages that are commonly interpreted rather than compiled.
- Ant
- APL
- AutoHotkey scripting language
- AutoIt scripting language
- BASIC (some dialects)
- DATABUS (later versions added optional compiling)
- DM
- Eiffel (via "Melting Ice Technology" in EiffelStudio)
- Forth (interactive shell only; otherwise compiled to native or threaded code)
- FPr (Virtual machine: Text is compiled to linked lists; linked lists are interpreted)
- Frink
- Game Maker Language
- Groovy
- Haskell (GHCi, Hugs, NHC, YHC etc.)
- J
- JavaScript
- Lisp (early versions, pre-1962, and some experimental ones; production Lisp systems are compilers, but many of them still provide an interpreter if needed)
- Tea
- LPC
- Lua
- Lush
- MUMPS (an ANSI standard general purpose language)
- Maple
- Mathematica
- Oriel
- Pascal
- PCASTL
- Perl
- PHP
- Pikt
- PostScript
- Python
- REXX
- R
- Ruby
- S-Lang
- Spin
- Tcl
- TI-BASIC
- TorqueScript
- thinBasic scripting language
- VBScript
- Windows PowerShell (Microsoft .NET-based CLI)
- XMLmosaic
- Some scripting languages (below)
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