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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: 29 Mar 2024 20:07:29 GMT
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Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:
>A scripting language is a programming language made for a hypothetical
>machine, not too different from a programming language made for a real
>machine, one made of hardware.

  C is clearly a programming language, yet its specification
  says, "The semantic descriptions in this document describe
  the behavior of an abstract machine". And you cannot buy
  this abstract C machine as a piece of hardware anywhere!