Editing Ousterhout's dichotomy (section)

==Criticism==
Critics believe that the dichotomy is highly arbitrary, and refer to it as ''Ousterhout's fallacy'' or ''Ousterhout's false dichotomy''.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Stuart Halloway |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ8u_sWT9Ls | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117182251/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ8u_sWT9Ls| archive-date=2018-01-17 | url-status=dead|title=Osterhout's Dichotomy Isn't}}</ref> While static-versus-dynamic typing, data structure complexity, and dependent versus stand-alone might be said to be unrelated features, the usual critique of Ousterhout's dichotomy is of its distinction of compiling versus interpreting. Neither semantics nor syntax depend significantly on whether a language implementation compiles into machine language, interprets, tokenizes, or byte-compiles at the start of each run, or any mix of these. In addition, basically no languages in widespread use are purely interpreted without a compiler; this makes compiling versus interpreting a dubious parameter in a taxonomy of programming languages.<ref>{{FOLDOC|Ousterhout%27s+dichotomy}}</ref>