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Line 1: [[Category:Encyclopedia]] ~~{{encyclopedic}}~~An interpreter reads either source code or [[bytecode]] for a program, and performs the instructions specified by that program. An interpreter is distinguished from a [[compiler]] by the fact that it doesn't need to compile the source format to a machine-readable format first; instead, it directly executes the instructions from the source. ==See also==