Ease of use has nothing to do with interpreting/compiling. It has to do with surface syntax and familiarity. You can interpret or compile any language. You can

Ease of use has nothing to do with interpreting/compiling. It has to do with surface syntax and familiarity. You can interpret or compile any language. You can (say) interpret code written in C. And you can compile Ruby to machine code if you want (with JIT compilation for eval).