On 5/24/05, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 15:04 -0700, Ian Puleston wrote: > > > >>>-----Original Message----- > >>>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list- > >>>bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Vian > >>> > >>> Differences are, a script is interpreted by a, well an interpreter like a shell or a specific porpouse executable program like perl or python, and executed in real time source code is 'interpreted' by a compiler to output an executable program. same thing applies to assembler code. writing sourcecode is generally regarded as programming or writing a program. whlie writing a script is regarded as .. writing a script, or writing a program in such and such scripting language.