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What is the difference between a REPL and an interpreter?

Hi, I was just wondering if there is any technical difference between a REPL and an interpreter?

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Interactive interpreters use REPLs. An interpreter is not required to have one. You can run Python, for example, in non-interactive mode (on a file) and it will not use a read-eval-print loop.

Nathon  2010-08-06 14:34:14

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