There's still a place for interpreters
Robert E. Machol, William J. Eccles, J. C. Bays · 1961
The emphasis is on compilers. There is no mention of the lowly nearly-machine-language interpreter which requires the user to write a program on a computer code. Three reasons are usually advanced for the employment of compilers. First, it is said that this is a method of teaching the machine to understand the user. Second, compilers are a way of speeding up the coding procedure, for now the user may write his program in a “problem-oriented” language. Third, anyone can learn how to use a computer if he can understand the problem which he has to solve.