Guys, The way I see it is: a script is file with code that hasn't been compiled, its is compiled during run time, for example web php and perl code are examples of scripting. A program is one that has been compiled and run as a compiled binary. Hope this helps Shaz On 5/24/05, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nathaniel Hall wrote: > > >> > >> 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? > > Back when I was using CP/M-86 I had both Microsoft's basic interpreter > and Microsoft's basic compiler. > > Even earlier, there were various PL/1 compilers and interpreters available. > > How could a source file be a program to one, a script to the other? > > Look more to what these programs do: if they principally run a sequence > of *x commands I'd classify them as scripts (in the *x environment). > > Even then, if I took this: > #!/bin/bash > rsync --times --perms --recursive --timeout=3600 $@ > > and coded it into equivalent C using the system() function, I'd be hard > pressed to explain why the C program isn't a script:-) > > > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
