Interpreter Quote by Tim Berners-Lee

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

— Steve Yegge

“a C compiler. A compiler is a program that converts C code into executable machine code.”

— Wiki Books

INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to…

— Ambrose Bierce

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't…

— Grace Hopper

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

— Larry Wall

Java the language is almost irrelevant. It's the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I've seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers…

— James Gosling

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

— Larry Wall

The fact is I have an interpreter because he gives me the security that, when I have to answer complex questions, and with my…

— Mauricio Pochettino

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

— Grace Hopper

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

— Derek Sivers