What features of interpreted languages can a compiled one not have?
Interpreted languages are usually more high-level and therefore have features as dynamic typing (including creating new variables dynamically without declaration), the infamous eval and many many other features that make a programmer's life easier - but why can't compiled languages have these as well?
I don't mean languages like Java that run on a VM, but those that compile to binary like C(++).
I'm not going to make a list now but if you are going to ask which features I mean, please look into what PHP, Python, Ruby etc. have to offer.
Whether source code is compiled - to native binaries, some kind of intermediate language (Java Bytecode/IL) - or interpreted is absolutely no trait of the language . It's just a question of the implementation.
You can actually have both compilers and interpreters for the same language like
Certain language features like eval or dynamic typing may suggest a distinction between so called "dynamic languages" and static ones, but how this is run can never be the primary question.
Initially, one of the largest benefits of interpreted languages was debugging. That way you can get incredibly accurate and detailed information when looking for the reason a program isn't working. However, most compilers have become advanced enough that that is not too big of a deal any more.
The other main benefit (in my opinion anyway), is that with interpreted languages, you don't have to wait for eternity for your project to compile to test it out.
You couldn't plausibly do eval , for example, for reasons I'd have thought were pretty obvious: exactly how would you implement it? Make the runtime contain a full copy of the compiler? Every time you wanted to evaluate a string (keeping in mind that each time it could be different!) you'd save the string to a file, run the compiler on it to make a DLL/shared-lib, then load that DLL/shared-lib and call your code? You can't see why this might be a wee bit impractical? ;)
You can find this kind of thing in dynamic languages all over the place that you can't do with static code short of basically running an interpreter, in effect, behind the scenes.
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