Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 13:25:31 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <20240401132531.00003710@gmail.com> References: <87edbtz43p.fsf@tudado.org> <20240401111552.00006ddc@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:25:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6e54db6547ba0cd3cfb65d52cc115a0b"; logging-data="2808884"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/gdOjJWaBfLR1kuF9bJo7+Vu8dkERzKj4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ClWSywXDlO/w5wLAOHna5JDgYcE= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Bytes: 2220 On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:42:05 GMT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote: > Why is it important that there be a distinction between "scripting" > and "non-scripting" languages at all? Oh, it's an interesting question from a general standpoint, and I think you could make an argument that it'd be "useful" to someone trying to determine what the right tool for a given job would be.* The problem seems to be that *A.* we're arguing from several wildly different definitions of "scripting language" - is it a matter of problem domain? Implementation details? Both? Phase of the moon? - and nobody seems to want to budge on their preferred line, and *B.* even with a given definition, it's not exactly a firm line. * (Funny story - when I was a young'un first dabbling with computer programming, I got the impression that a lot of DOS games were written in Batch, of all things, because that was how you invoked them, and spent several confused days poring over the MS documentation trying to figure out how they could've done it!)