What is Java (compiler lang / or interpreter lang)
843811Aug 6 2001 — edited Aug 7 2001Hi,
at our company we have a deadly war going on, please help us :)
Some programmers, including me, saying that Java is
a interpreter language, because the bytecode cant
run on a processor, because the bytecode still is some kind of abstraction, that the VM or a Java-CPU must
interpret.
The other fraction is saying that because you have a compilation step in your development process, and because the bytecode is some kind of machine code, Java is a compiler language.
I would appreciate any comments on this, including some arguments for any opinion.
Thx
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