compiler construction - There is no such thing as a "compiled language" or "interpreted language"

Question

"There is no such thing as a "compiled language" or "interpreted language". Whether a language implementer chooses to write a compiler, an interpreter or anything in between is an implementation detail and has nothing to do with the language. "

Is the above statement is true ?

Answer 1

Yes, it is true in the strictest interpretation. You can find both a C++ interpreter and a Javascript compiler, for example. However, you will find that some types of languages (statically typed, for example) lend themselves well to native code compilation. Other languages (dynamically typed, for example) are commonly implemented using bytecode compilation combined with a virtual machine execution environment.