Ask Chromus

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 12:40 am

When your body is ready to wake, your brain starts waking up muscles and increases blood flow, getting your body ready to go. If you sleep past this point, your brain slows everything back down. If you wake before this point, your brain never sped your body up in the first place. In both of these situations, you feel tired as your brain suddenly has to switch your body to awake mode.

First of all, BASIC is both a scripted language and a compiled language. There are interpreters that run BASIC code, and there are compilers that turn BASIC code into assembly for execution.

The difference between PHP and scripted BASIC is that PHP was designed as a replacement for Perl and a substitute for ASP in the realm of server-side web scripting. Scripted BASIC, however, was designed for making small programs to do menial tasks, like a text-based screen saver. PHP, however, can do BASIC-like things, such as output text to the server's screen, but I haven't heard of scripted BASIC doing the server-side scripting that PHP can do.

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 1:00 am

I was actually using PHP and BASIC as examples of what I meant, not specifics...

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 4:45 pm

Oops. Sorry about that. You're right that they have many similarities: both are normally run through interpreters and mainly interact with the command line or command arguments. PHP just happens to have much more functionality because it was designed much later with wider goals. Some interpreted languages, like BASIC, actually have compilers that turn them into native executable code, like Python and Visual Basic, but most interpreted languages will only work with the interpreter.

I don't really know what else you need an answer to, so please clarify the question.

Twilkitri · Post by **Twilkitri** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:30 pm

I was asking if there are any differences between scripting and interpreted languages, or if they're both really the same thing.

Post by **Pez-Man** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 7:50 pm

Whats the RC stand for in TYCO and other toy car companies? Is it remote control, or something else?

Chewi · Post by **Chewi** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 10:15 pm

It probably does mean remote control.

Chewi · Post by **Chewi** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:04 pm

Why isn't java working on my computer?

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 4:16 pm

Scripted and interpreted languages usually refer to the same type of language. Sometimes, they're used to indicate seperate languages, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

RC in TYCO RC stands for Remote Control.

Did you download the Java Runtime Environment, needed to run most Java applets on the web, from http://java.sun.com/getjava/?

ayana · Post by **ayana** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:11 pm

Would you ever come to Nova Scotia to try donairs, the best food ever? XD

Figaro · Post by **Figaro** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:14 pm

I totally would.

In fact, I will.

*Walks to NS*

oo; *dies halfway* Mebbe I shoulda brought food and water @_@

Chewi · Post by **Chewi** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:39 pm

I downloaded it and tried to install but it froze so I had to close it and now it won't install...and yes I tried rebooting.

chromus · Post by **chromus** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:29 pm

I'd love to visit Nova Scotia, but college right now is occupying all my time. Perhaps when I'm not so busy.

The next time I come home, I'll be over to help you fix this problem, as it isn't easily described in text how to fix it.

Chewi · Post by **Chewi** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:24 pm

That's what summer is for!

Post by **Pez-Man** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 5:40 pm

Why won't people visit this site/forum?

Zornak · Post by **Zornak** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 8:16 pm

because beyonder is starving to death