interpreter

An interpreter is a program or component that directly executes instructions written in a programming or scripting language by reading and performing them line by line without first compiling them into machine code.

Observed surface forms (5)

• Python interpreter ×1
• Ruby interpreter ×1
• command-line interpreter ×1
• programming language interpreter ×1
• scripting environment ×1

Instances (9)

• Unix shell via concept surface "command-line interpreter"
• PyPy via concept surface "Python interpreter"
• La Malinche
• Soyeon Schröder-Kim
• Squanto
• Sacagawea
• Python reference implementation (CPython)
  surface form: CPython
• MRI via concept surface "Ruby interpreter"
• mruby via concept surface "programming language interpreter"