"compile" vs. "tokenize" (was Re: Password Problem)

[Kenneth Brody]

Jeff Harrison wrote:
> 
> Ken Brody Wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> > >
> > >         (I'm not exactly certain which verb to use with
> > Quickstart.  Should
> > > it be tokenize or compile or something else?)
> >
> > The word "compile" applies here.
> >
> 
> Really?  I thought that filepro interpreted the .tok files.  "compile"
> implies that the code is converted to object modules that can then be linked
> to form an executable, no?

Well, to be "buzzword compliant", I would say that "filePro compiles to
a bytecode for the filePro Virtual Machine".

Basically, it gets compiled to machine code.  It's just that the machine
that it compiles for is not the physical machine that you're running.

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