Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On 30.03.2024 00:14, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 29.03.2024 21:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:37:22 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
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Program text is initially text.[*] During parsing (either in
an interpreted or in a compiled language) you split the text
in tokens.

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And then, how do you interpret the tokens?

 
In an interpreter the tokens are interpreted, in a compiler
they are subject to the parsing. [...]

Just noticed that this may be misleading. Of course the shell
does also a syntax analysis step and report syntax errors. So
don't get me wrong here.

Janis