Compiler vs. interpreter: Key differences . Learn about the crucial differences between compilers and interpreters and how they affect code execution and development. 1639 Total views .

Writing a compiler seems like a much harder problem than an interpreter. That might be true today, but I would argue that it was not the case some 60 years ago. A few reasons why: ...

Tim Hart and Mike Levin at MIT created the first LISP compiler, in LISP, in 1962; the compiler itself was compiled by running Russell’s LISP interpreter on the compiler source code.