Firstly, keep in mind that there are two types of languages, compiled and interpreted. Compiled languages transform source code into binary code, creating strings of 1s and 0s that computers can understand in a low-level way. On the other hand, interpreted languages use something called an interpreter to understand the execution time of source code and do whatever the code says. There are other kinds of languages that are intermediates between interpreted and compiled, and use frameworks or virtual machines to understand bytecode. Bytecode is intermediate code created by technologies such as Java or .NET, but for the purpose of this book, it is not necessary to explore it in more depth.
Most web technologies use interpreters or virtual machines to work. Popular languages such as PHP, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript are interpreted, while .NET and Java use a virtual...
