> in scripting languages, a statement does not depend on the following ones to be executed, meaning that the code can just be read through I'm pretty sure this

> in scripting languages, a statement does not depend on the following ones to be executed, meaning that the code can just be read through I'm pretty sure this is nonsense and is not a consistent way to distinguish languages that are considered scripting languages and languages considered compiled languages. > Compile litterally means "group together". Maybe so, but as a technical term in computer science, it means translate from one language to another. That said, I definitely agree that compile times matter.