Wait, what? How is its interpreter remotely relevant to its semantics?
> if you have a syntax error in C, the program will simply not compile, on the other hand, in interpreted languages, the problem might go unnoticed for quite some time
Hang on--Python allows you to run code that has syntax errors? I'm so confused.
#!/usr/bin/python
import time
time.sleep(5)
fdafadsfadsf
#!/usr/bin/python
import time
x = 1
time.sleep(5)
print "x is "+x
In a language like Java, these would be syntax errors, and they'd be picked up at compile time as they're illegal in Java's syntax.
I assume they're legal in Python's syntax, because for all the syntax checker knows, time.sleep() might define fdafadsfadsf and convert x into a string. So they're runtime errors in Python.
Of course, Java still has runtime exceptions - null pointer exceptions, for example.