script or language ?

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hi :)
what they mean when the say PHP isn't a programming language but a script language ?
I've read something about parser, engine, port (port of PHP for 32-bit Windows is made by Visual C++, for example).. but I couldn't figure it out.
 
PHP is interpreted at run time versus being compiled as some other languages are.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both as with everything...
You can actually compile PHP into an EXE but that's not what is was designed to do.
 
thanks element but:
wiki said:
Many languages have been implemented using both compilers and interpreters, including BASIC, C, Lisp, Pascal, and Python. Java and C# are compiled into bytecode, the virtual machine-friendly interpreted language. Lisp implementations can freely mix interpreted and compiled code.
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we still call them programming language even when they get interpreted instead of compiled ?
 
Basically php is scripting language that not compiled. But these days it doesn't matter anymore, PHP programmer is probably the more accurate term.
 
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