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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:03:05 -0700
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
> 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:
>>>
>>>> Program text is initially text.[*] During parsing (either in
>>>> an interpreted or in a compiled language) you split the text
>>>> in tokens.
>>>
>>> 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.

I did indeed get you wrong here (see my other followup).

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