Compilers for languages intended to be machine-independent, such as Java, Python, or C#, translate the source code into byte code for a virtual machine, which is then run in an interpreter for the ...

As Plotkin notes, the interpreter source code doesn't have a lot of interesting, personal, or other revealing comments or artifacts. It does contain some unintentional commentary on what it was ...

Interpreters take human-readable software code and translate each line into bytecode — granular programming instructions understood by the underlying, often virtual, machine.