[TUHS] Compilation "vs" byte-code interpretation, was Re: Looking back to 1981 - what pascal was popular on what unix?

[Steve Nickolas]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2022, Nemo Nusquam wrote:

> On 2022-01-30 17:51, Dan Cross wrote (in part):
>> Not really. As an interesting aside, before Java became widespread I heard 
>> folks mention "P-code" as a generic term for what most folks mean when they 
>> say "bytecode." Now we often just say "bytecode."
>
> Wirth called his Pascal bytecode P-code and his Modula bytecode M-code.  Why 
> did Gosling not call his bytecode "J-code"?

And I think I've heard the Infocom compilers' bytecode called "Z-code" (I 
use this term too).

-uso.