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Java raises issue of role of Interpreters versus Compilers
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Success of systems like MATLAB and languages like APL show relevance of interpreters in Scientic Computing
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PERL, JavaScript, TcL, Visual Basic etc. indicate growing use of Interpreters in other domain
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Natural as computers get faster!
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We suggest that integration of Interpreters and compilers is an important research issue and could suggest new models for parallelism
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We need both Compilers and Interpreters!!
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Optimizing Interpreters (as in JIT for Java)
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A library model where interpreted toolkits invoke lovingly parallelized high performance libraries
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Natural linkage to interpreted data analysis / visualization
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