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> Not necessarily, I would consider an interpreter as something entirely different because there is no requirement that it abide to the syntax of the language.

What does this mean? A language interpreter naturally abides to the syntax of the language it implements.

> It doesn’t make sense to me to say this language english is implemented in Spanish and German.

Maybe because natural languages are a useless analogy for this in the first place.



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