>True. I think Ken Levy in his post to you made a good point. VBScript and JScript both run under a interpreter. Namely, their source is pure text (although an encoder is available). VFP does not use pure text.

Nowhere in the "common literature" does it say they "interpreting" CANNOT involve an "intermediate" step or that it involves ONLY "pure text".

By your definition, even Intellisense would "compromise" interpreting since it may have influenced the preparation of the original text (by pointing out "errors", reformatting, etc.)