"... the distinguishing feature of interpreted languages is not that they are not compiled, but that any eventual compiler is part of the language runtime and t

"... the distinguishing feature of interpreted languages is not that they are not compiled, but that any eventual compiler is part of the language runtime and that, therefore, it is possible (and easy) to execute code generated on the fly." p57 https://www.lua.org/pil/#1ed https://www.lua.org/pil/#1ed