'Interpreted' is often used to mean 'not compiled to machine code'. Perl fits that bill. So do, say, CPython and Lua, in contrast to JIT-compiling runtime syste

'Interpreted' is often used to mean 'not compiled to machine code'. Perl fits that bill. So do, say, CPython and Lua, in contrast to JIT-compiling runtime systems like PyPy or LuaJIT or AOT-compiled languages like C or Rust.