... then run their own 'interpreter' to convert the compiled code into a code they can use. Languages such as JAVA are said to be platform-independent, because any program written in that language can run on any machine. These types of languages are ideal for use on the Internet, where you don't know anything about the machine that will be running your code. Compilation and interpretation compared * Compilation is much faster than interpretation. Once the compilation process has been completed, the object code will run much faster than the same interpreted code. And the program only has to compile the code once. * Object code does not need the compiler to actually run it, only to convert it from source code to object code. Therefore, the object code produced by a compiler can be distributed to other computers without the compiler. One could write a program and then sell the object ...

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