Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:09:56 -0000 (UTC)
Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-29, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:40:03 +0000
Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:

My rule of thimb is that a scripting language is one whereby the source

code

can be run immediately by the interpreter, eg perl, python, regardless of
what happens internally. A full fledged programming language is one that
requires a compile/debug/link step first with the compiler and runtime (if

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required) being seperate. eg Java, C

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C can be a scripting language by that rule:

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No definition is perfect in this case, its all shades of grey.

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Yes, a definition can be close to perfet here:

Define perfect. Yours isn't.

Scripting is an activity, a use case, not a language.

So if I write a program to for example process some files in a directory by
your argument its a script whether I write it in shell, python, C++ or
assembler.

Umm, no, try again.