A Brief History of Just-in-Time (2003) [pdf]

Just-in-time compilation

> BASIC was the testbed for throw-away compilation. Brown [1976] essen-tially characterized the technique as agood way to address the time-space trade-off; Hammond [1977] was somewhat moreadamant, claiming throw-away compila-tion to be superior except when memoryis tight

Ironically the first BASICs were compiled, it was the home micros that made the interpreters more common.

With Microsoft being one of the few companies that kept having compilers available.