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Sure, there is no "rule" against it. But words/phrases have commonly-accepted meanings and willfully ignoring or appropriating those meanings implies either cultural ignorance or a concealed agenda.

If you want to insist that scripting languages can be either compiled or interpreted, then its better to just drop it altogether and just say "language" because the "scripting" part has utterly lost its identity at that point.



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