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From: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:32:30 -0400
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On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:38:48 -0400, Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote:
> "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.

I still refer to text files, intended to be run through an interpreter such
as bash, as scripts, while things like c text files that must be compiled to
an object file and then linked to be executable as programs.

Regards, Dave Hodgins