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From: charles.herrick@amd.com (Charles Herrick)
Subject: Re: is smalltalk interpreted or compiled?
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In article <DFyFyC.2D5@cunews.carleton.ca>,
   dbuck@superior.carleton.ca (Dave Buck) wrote:
>In article <44ugj8$gbe@academ00.mty.itesm.mx>,
>OLIVIA ARACELY MONCAYO BELMARES <al582947@academ10.mty.itesm.mx> wrote:
>> would like to know if smalltalk is interpreted or compiled....
>>i've heard that some versions are interpreted...but i don't know exactly 
>>which ones are and which are not....please if you know, send me mail to:
>>
>>al582947@academ01.mty.itesm.mx
>
>This question is surprisingly difficult to answer because of the
>definition of "compiled" versus "interpreted".  For VisualWorks and
>Visual Smalltalk, it works like this:
>

My turn ...
It's interpreted.

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