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Compilers and interpreters

Programming languages allow you to interact with computers but writing a program would end in itself without compilers and interpreters. A computer would not be able to understand a program written with programming languages without the code being first translated into machine language; in the case of compilers, or interpreted in the case of interpreters.  Compiled and interpreted languages Except for Java where we can summarize with a term typical of (middle way) the constraints of a compiled program as in C, C ++ compared to an interpreted one, to understand them you have to go back in time to the birth of the Web; this is the only way to understand what prompted the need to find alternative solutions to those of compiled languages. Even though things have changed today with languages that have improved the internet experience such as: JavaScript, PHP, ASP, JSP at the time, the "small applications written in Java" Applets were the first to open the way to the new way of und...