[kortex]

That's not really a good definition of compiled. Interpreted vs compiled is very much more a continuum than it was however many years ago when these terms originated - you had compiled ALGOL and interpreted BASIC, and little in between.

Rather, you have to look at it like an attribute based categorization:

Compiled:

- types known at compile time

- limited runtime features like stack traces, introspection

- working closer to primitive data types

Interpreted:

- dynamic, with lots of indirection

- wrapped data types (eg PyObject) vs primitives

- rich runtime with stack traces, introspection, monkey patching