{"id":4681,"date":"2019-12-22T23:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2019-12-22T23:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T23:32:28","slug":"compilers-interpreters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/compilers-interpreters\/","title":{"rendered":"Compilers &#038; Interpreters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While writing up <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/static-page-web-sites\/\">my notes on Static Page Generators<\/a>, I was reminded of an IT course I did in the early &#8217;80s. The course, SSADM at the Civil Service College included a session on presentation skills during which one of my fellow students presented on the difference between compilers &amp; interpreters. He used a hand written slide, something like this. &#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 120%; color: red;\">C<\/strong>ompilers read source code and<br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-size: 120%; color: red;\">R<\/strong>emember the converted instructions<br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-size: 120%; color: red;\">A<\/strong>n interpreter repeatedly<br \/>\n<strong style=\"font-size: 120%; color: red;\">P<\/strong>rocess source code instructions one at a time<\/p>\n<p>I have remembered this for nearly 40 years; it&#8217;s amazing what a bit of rudeness helps with and equally amazing that the knowledge is still useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While writing up my notes on Static Page Generators, I was reminded of an IT course I did in the early &#8217;80s. The course, SSADM at the Civil Service College included a session on presentation skills during which one of my fellow students presented on the difference between compilers &amp; interpreters. He used a hand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1382,911],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-memories","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/html-from-makeuseof_com-w650c.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}