[mikebenfield]

> in scripting languages, a statement does not depend on the following ones to be executed, meaning that the code can just be read through

I'm pretty sure this is nonsense and is not a consistent way to distinguish languages that are considered scripting languages and languages considered compiled languages.

> Compile litterally means "group together".

Maybe so, but as a technical term in computer science, it means translate from one language to another.

That said, I definitely agree that compile times matter.