Where do you draw the line between "compiled" and "interpreted"? Perl, Java, and older VB among others are compiled to an intermediate code which is then executed by an interpreter.
By the compiled/interpreted definition, VB programmers 5 years ago were writing "scripts" which, when compiled in a recent version, are now "programs".
Come to think of it, some mainframes use microcode to execute machine instructions. The microcode is an "interpreter" for the machine's assembly language. Guess that makes all those big COBOL programs scripts, not applications :)
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