Interpreted Programming Language
Interpreted Programming Language
History
As a practical matter, a program could be written, saved on magnetic tape (or paper tape,) compiled and
saved on a different magnetic tape. On a personal computer, that wasn't practical. A compiler was a fairly
large program, home computers didn't have lots of fast off-line storage and, well, it would be nice to just
type it in and say RUN. The solution was an interpreter.
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Functional programming emerged as a distinct paradigm in the early 1960s. Its creation was
motivated by the needs of researchers in artificial intelligence and its subfields symbolic computation,
theorem proving, rule-based systems and natural language processing.