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The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask ...

I started off programming in QBASIC (I know it can be compiled, but I'll always think of it as interpreted), and I now use plenty of php, but what else is out there?

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...