Made this an [OT] for Matt Miller's sake.
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:10:56PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
grumman Fan wrote:
On 5/23/05, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jeff Kinz wrote:
This isn't a programming question. Its a scripting question.
scripts meet most IT definitions of "program."
So "scripting" is the same thing as "programming"?
"I scripted a new Linux kernel today."
Scripting is a subset of programming, and nobody suggested otherwise.
The confusion between "what is scripting" and "what is programming"
rises from the different levels in the set of activities called "programming".
My personal thought is that programs are compiled prior to the user executing it. A script is compiled at the time it is run. Is that a good way to differentiate them?
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