Is Perl compiled or interpreted?

From what I've read so far, bash seems to fit the defintion of an interpreted language: it is not compiled into a lower format every statement ends up calling a subroutine / set of subrouti...

In compiled languages, the source code is turned into object code by the compiler and the different object files (if there are multiple files) are linked by the linker and loaded into the memory by...

In the chosen answer for this question about Blue Ruby, Chuck says: All of the current Ruby implementations are compiled to bytecode. Contrary to SAP's claims, as of Ruby 1.9, MRI itself incl...

I just noticed that in the wikipedia page of Ruby, this language is defined as interpreted language. I understood that probably there's something missing in my background. I have always known the d...

I read somewhere Clojure is compiled. Is it really compiled, like Java or Scala, rather than interpreted, like Jython or JRuby?

Is R an interpreted or compiled programming language?

I am wondering if anyone has used or read about PHP scripts compiled as a .so extension for Apache... Thing is I think I remember reading about it somewhere but dont know if such a thing exists. T...