The technology to do all of those things existed well before iPhones & Macs appeared. You may argue that "yeah but he made them popular", but the iPhone & Mac users were never in the majority.

History would suggest otherwise. Ripping Woz off springs to mind. And is giving the world expensive Apple products making it a better place?

Ah, the golden age of Android where any app could make you money.

It makes such a refreshing change to have a web page not cluttered with adverts and popups. Just nice, clean, well-spaced-out text and simple organisation.

I think it means "compile it into bytecode", which can then be run by the Runtime.

So like most JIT languages nowadays?

That's pretty much the definition of tokenized. I know Oracle would like us to think different, but facts are facts

Since you seem passionate about precise definitions for technical terms, maybe you could point us to third-party definitions which match your understanding? Start with sources for what "compilation" and "tokenization" mean as you understand them?

You are thinking of the typical design of a BASIC system in the 80's. Keywords were stored as "tokens" (numbers) but expressions were usually stored as space-stripped strings. There would be an edit-time syntax check (combined with the tokenization) to check if the expressions were syntactical and only in places where they were allowed). Some designs did use tokens for the expressions too.

There was almost no syntax involved and essentially zero compilation work.

Java compilers do a lot more than that. They actually compile to a real (abstract) machine and they do real compiler things (proper parsing, maintenance of namespaces, type checks). They usually don't do any optimization because that will happen at run-time anyway -- but that doesn't make them "not compilers".

> That's pretty much the definition of tokenized

Oh boy. It’s rare to see such confidence mixed with such nonsense.

If it makes any kind of decision whatsoever (like an "if" statement), slap the word AI on it.

I'm going to call a non-chicken a chocken from now on. :)

When did the people specifically asked for this kind of system?

The people have never specifically asked for anything, because we're not a direct democracy and we don't have federal referenda. What does that matter?

Let's not go down this route here.

I think they were just parodying the typical text that used to be shown against a page 3 girl bitd.