International Workshop on Interpreted Languages

Sebastian Bergmann writes "Interpreted programming languages are increasingly gaining importance in both the commercial and scientific world. The 1st International Workshop on Interpreted Languages that will be held during the Net.ObjectDays 2004 conference this fall in Erfurt, Germany takes this into account and will present current developments from the exciting world of interpreted languages. The Call for Papers was recently announced and research papers and industry case studies related to Interpreted Languages can be submitted until April 23rd, 2004."

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While this may sound... harsh

[TheRealMindChild]

The reason Interpreted Languages are becoming "Ever so important", is a few reasons:

1) A kid (or adult) with some brains, but little actual low level computer knowledge can come up with an interpreter

2)Computers are now at the point where something interpreted isn't even noticed half of the time (speed wise)

3)To build off of #1, if your interpreter is written in protable C, then your new language is that much more portable

This is the time, more so then ever, that we are going to see more of a division in the term "Programmer". You will have your "Interpreted Language Programmers" or "Scripter", then you will have the lower level monkey's writing the interpreter's to interface with the OS, then possibly, a system level programmer, making the OS do what the OS does.

Sure, its been going like this for a while, but I believe the transition phase is coming to an end