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The border between a compiler and an interpreter has become more and more blurred. Quoting from wikipedia: An interpreter is a computer program that directly executes, /i.e./ performs, instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without previously compiling them into a machine language program. An interpreter generally uses one of the following strategies for program execution: * parse the source code and perform its behavior directly. * translate source code into some efficient intermediate representation and immediately execute this. * explicitly execute stored precompiled code made by a compiler which is part of the interpreter system. In contrast, a compiler transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language), with the latter often having a binary form known as object code and being directly executable by the underlying hardware. These days some high-level languages are converted (compiled) into an intermediate code, a machine code for a machine that does not actually exist, but which is then interpreted by an emulator. Sometimes the conversion to the intermediate code is done on-the-fly and/or on demand. Next: BackendWebFramework