That's not really a good definition of compiled. Interpreted vs compiled is very much more a continuum than it was however many years ago when these terms origi

That's not really a good definition of compiled. Interpreted vs compiled is very much more a continuum than it was however many years ago when these terms originated - you had compiled ALGOL and interpreted BASIC, and little in between. Rather, you have to look at it like an attribute based categorization: Compiled: - types known at compile time - limited runtime features like stack traces, introspection - working closer to primitive data types Interpreted: - dynamic, with lots of indirection - wrapped data types (eg PyObject) vs primitives - rich runtime with stack traces, introspection, monkey patching