Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

The distinctions between script and programming languages made sense when
they were first introduced. Later, the ability to compile scripts followed
by the things like java bytecode, and then the use of microcode in to make
"machine language" act like a script have made the distinction murky to
the point of effectively being useless at the technical level.
 From the user's point of view, text files the are executed by passing them
to an interpreter are best called scripts, and anything that goes through
some sort of compilation to a binary file that then gets executed are best
called programs.
The terminology will continue to be used, but the distinction does not matter,
except from a speed of processing difference.
Regards, Dave Hodgins