And then there's the rest of the world: Python: Interpreted language, right? Then what are all those .pyc files doing? You can say it's compiled into an interp

And then there's the rest of the world: Python: Interpreted language, right? Then what are all those .pyc files doing? You can say it's compiled into an interpreted form, but then JVM bytecode comes along, which is interpreted right up until you find an implementation that JITs. Or is it only compiled if you save the compiled form to disk, like you do with gcj? Scheme: An interpreted language in Guile, a compiled language in Stalin?