Still, the general assumption was that even a program that could be prototyped using a scripting language would need to be rewritten into a compiled language. This assumption started breaking down ...

Hobbs: Scripting languages are increasingly prevalent ... Lam: Compilation is orthogonal to static/dynamic. IronRuby is a compiled language (and an interpreted one too — we offer both options ...

There are numerous scripting languages, also called dynamic languages because they are interpreted and compiled at runtime. But a handful of them come to mind as the most prominent: JavaScript ...

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

the Java programming language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The Java language is compiled into bytecodes that run on the JVM. Through this design, Java delivers its vaunted portability.

Interpreted code is compiled into an intermediary that runs on any architecture. But this clear distinction tends to fade when you examine the exact features and potential capabilities of any ...