> if ever there were a language that deserved to be called "compiled," C is it.
I was only clarifying the other guy's comment, but I do appreciate the desire to be careful with the meaning of technical terms, lest they get diluted and become less useful.
> It truly was designed to be compiled, and who in their right mind would bother interpreting it?
Lots of people can (and do!) interpret C, or some subset, superset, or abstraction of C, for a great many purposes. Consider debuggers, IDEs, formal verification systems, build systems, security tools, etc.
> if ever there were a language that deserved to be called "compiled," C is it.
I was only clarifying the other guy's comment, but I do appreciate the desire to be careful with the meaning of technical terms, lest they get diluted and become less useful.
> It truly was designed to be compiled, and who in their right mind would bother interpreting it?
Lots of people can (and do!) interpret C, or some subset, superset, or abstraction of C, for a great many purposes. Consider debuggers, IDEs, formal verification systems, build systems, security tools, etc.