> As insanely inefficient as this all sounds, it was actually done back in the day. Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, and a host of others say this isn't a dead techni

> As insanely inefficient as this all sounds, it was actually done back in the day. Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, and a host of others say this isn't a dead technique. Another reason for it back then was to only need to port the interpreter to each different architecture and platform, an important consideration in the 80s with the bloom of CPUs and machines.