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Do you genuinely not understand what they mean (that it produces binaries and isn't run in an interpreter or VM)?
by mark_edward 9y ago
Do you genuinely not understand what they mean (that it produces binaries and isn't run in an interpreter or VM)?
- mclehman 9y agoI think their aim was to highlight the distinction between a language and an implementation of that language and possibly argue that only a particular implementation should be referred to as compiled/interpreted.
- sigjuice 9y agoWhat I understand is that they invented a language called Crystal. And they made a compiler for it. The phrase "compiled language" is not very meaningful. It is quite possible for someone to make a Crystal interpreter.
- goatlover 9y agoSure, but the goal of the language creator is to create a compiled Ruby-like language. As such, Crystal is by design meant to be compiled. Which is also the case for languages like C, C++, Go, etc.
- sigjuice 9y agoWhat properties of C indicate that it is meant to be compiled? The word "compiler" does not appear in the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard (aka C99) in any meaningful way (there is just one sentence in a footnote).
- goatlover 9y agoThat it's fairly close to assembly for a high level language, and most C that has ever been written has been compiled.