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

The point here is that it must be compiled each time it is run. VFP does not do this. Further, the computer science texts that I have studied most certainly make this distinction.

>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.)

No, I don't agree. To clarify: An interpreter compiles at run-time. Threaded p-code, which is what VFP is, does not involve compilation (with the possible exception of macro expansion). That's the distinction. How you arrive at the above statement is beyond me.

I think this has gone on long enough. I'm done.