From Wikipedia: The REPL is commonly misnamed an interpreter . This is a misnomer—many programming languages that use compilation (including bytecode compilation) have REPLs, such as Common Lisp and Python. Interactive interpreters use REPLs.
From Wikipedia: The REPL is commonly misnamed an interpreter . This is a misnomer—many programming languages that use compilation (including bytecode compilation) have REPLs, such as Common Lisp and Python. Interactive interpreters use REPLs.