You could write something that compiles down to JavaScript opcodes then run them in your JavaScript virtual machine. This is actually pretty similar to what Per

You could write something that compiles down to JavaScript opcodes then run them in your JavaScript virtual machine. This is actually pretty similar to what Perl5 does. You wouldn't have to do that to have an interpreter, though. So your implementation of your "interpreter" fuzzes the line moreso because it indeed technically contains a compiler.