2010-04-06, 02:09 PM
"A computer program in the form of a human-readable, computer programming language is called source code. Source code may be converted into an executable image by a compiler or executed immediately with the aid of an interpreter."
The fact is that you can program in an interpreted language, i.e. make a system execute a series of instructions. That said, there is definitely a distinction between compiled and interpreted languages and how they are typically used, but she didn't have to make the distinction if she didn't want to, and she seems to have had both kinds in mind when she created the poll.
If she had only been thinking of machine compiled languages, and only put those in the poll, that would've been valid too, and maybe she could've fit most of the reasonable options in then. But that's not the case; oh well.
The fact is that you can program in an interpreted language, i.e. make a system execute a series of instructions. That said, there is definitely a distinction between compiled and interpreted languages and how they are typically used, but she didn't have to make the distinction if she didn't want to, and she seems to have had both kinds in mind when she created the poll.
If she had only been thinking of machine compiled languages, and only put those in the poll, that would've been valid too, and maybe she could've fit most of the reasonable options in then. But that's not the case; oh well.