> Additionally, and this is something I really didn’t get into, languages aren’t inherently compiled or interpreted. You could have a C interpreter. Of course;

> Additionally, and this is something I really didn’t get into, languages aren’t inherently compiled or interpreted. You could have a C interpreter. Of course; I was only addressing the confusion that other posters mentioned. While one could have a C interpreter (or any interpreter), for the purposes of the article this seems to be only a marginal point. In practice, C is (almost) never run that way, but your choice of words could suggest a parallel between the C abstract machine and the Ruby or Java VMs, and I think the way usual C implementations differ from those is more informative than how they are alike. You do explain later that the C abstract machine is a compile-time construct, but many people read selectively and react immediately, as evidenced by several posts on this page.