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From: Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
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"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> writes:

[...]

> The terminology will continue to be used, but the distinction does not
> matter, except from a speed of processing difference.

Just to share that I, personally, don't use the distinction.  For
instance, I say that

  "the answer is %.2f\n"

is a program that builds a string given its usual context.  I say that

  awk '1; { print "" }'

is a program to double-space a file.  I haven't said ``script'' in
years.