>You have probably already heard that Python, unlike Fortran, C++ or Go, was an interpreted language. While not completely wrong, it is not entirely true either.<p>Interpreted byte-code is still interpreted (and is a norm among interpreted languages: VB (pcode), PHP, Perl, some Pascal, Java (until the JIT gets to it) all interpreted byte-code.)<p>I really dislike it when people change the definitions of well established things because they don't like their own, or others, connotations of the term.<p>>Thereafter, these instructions are actually interpreted by a virtual machine.<p>Indeed like most other mainstream interpreters do...