Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:38:48 -0400, Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:

"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
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The terminology will continue to be used, but the distinction does not
matter, except from a speed of processing difference.

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Just to share that I, personally, don't use the distinction.  For
instance, I say that
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  "the answer is %.2f\n"
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is a program that builds a string given its usual context.  I say that
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  awk '1; { print "" }'
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is a program to double-space a file.  I haven't said ``script'' in
years.

I still refer to text files, intended to be run through an interpreter such
as bash, as scripts, while things like c text files that must be compiled to
an object file and then linked to be executable as programs.
Regards, Dave Hodgins