[sophist]

I don't think non-hacker types even know what an interpreted language is.

That was actually my point. When someone doesn't know the technical meaning of a phrase, they generally assume the literal and broad meaning of it. The target audience for the original blog post presumably falls mainly into that category.

And just because something is not of particular interest to you doesn't make it anal nitpicking that "does nothing to further discussion."

[mattmaroon]

It is of interest to me, it's just a minor technical mistake that has no relevance whatsoever to the overall article, and is therefore nitpicking.