Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780133943023
Author: Robert W. Sebesta
Publisher: PEARSON
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Lua:

  • Lua is considered as an impurely interpreted language.
  • The main difference between a compiled language and an interpreted language is that in a compiled language, the compiler will convert the source code into machine code, and the machine code will be executed by the hardware of the computer.
  • Whereas, in an interpreted language, the code is first converted into some intermediate form and that corresponding form will be executed by the interpreter.
    • That intermediate form can either be a tree or certain binary instructions for a virtual machine or some tokens...

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