Interpreted Language - Advantages of Interpreting A Language

Advantages of Interpreting A Language

Interpreted language is an object oriented language. Interpreting a language gives implementations some additional flexibility over compiled implementations. Features that are often easier to implement in interpreters than in compilers include (but are not limited to):

  • platform independence (Java's byte code, for example)
  • reflection and reflective use of the evaluator (e.g. a first-order eval function)
  • dynamic typing
  • smaller executable program size (since implementations have flexibility to choose the instruction code)
  • dynamic scoping

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