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"The current reference implementation of the Ruby programming language does not use bytecode, however it relies on tree-like structures which resemble intermediate representations used in compilers.". Is it relevant to talk about Ruby not using bytecode in this article? - Philoctet
==incorrect use of term bytecode==
I believe that this entire article is a misuse of the term bytecode. I have worked near machine level in computer science for many years, and in my experience, bytecode applies specifically to the Java Virtual Machine, whose instruction set does indeed consist of one-byte opcodes. For other programming languages, the correct term for what this article described is "intermediate language". Visual Basic compiles to an intermediate language, as did Pascal, Smalltalk, and others. These were NEVER to my knowledge called "bytecode."
I think this needs to be fixed, hopefully by the author of this article.
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