[direwolf20]

If you turn milk into cheese it isn't milk any more, and it doesn't prove that milk is a yellow solid.

[genxy]

We lost the plot here.

What are your goals, to let everyone know that interpreters, definitionally don't generate code? This isn't debate club.

I dropped a cool link that shows we have a machine that turns interpreters into compilers. I am talking about the machine. You are talking about the definition. We aren't talking about the same thing.

[ghusbands]

Partly, it's simply that words matter. An interpreter is not a compiler, even if partial evaluators and Futamura transforms are very cool. Posting about them in a context that isn't a confusion about what interpreters are may have been more fruitful.