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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by myownpetard on Friday October 06, 2023 @02:39AM (#37787800)
> The machine is not "interpreting instructions" but "just" mapping to unambiguous defined actions.

Well in the case of Python, the interpreter is indeed interpreting.

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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by withinboredom on Friday October 06, 2023 @08:45AM (#37790028)
An interpreter is just a compiler that executes the code instead of storing it in a file.
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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by myownpetard on Friday October 06, 2023 @07:44PM (#37797738)
It was a pun about how this thread is being overly semantic in an unnecessary and uninteresting way...

We could also talk about how the word 'executes' implies some kind of agency which computers lack. It's like saying a rock just executes the laws of physics when it rolls down a hill...

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