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From: Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 08:31:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:10:36 -0000 (UTC)
Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
>On 2024-03-30, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com <Muttley@dastardlyhq.com> wrote:
>>>I also wrote: "Scripting refers to executing commands which are so high
>>>level that they are entire applications or functional blocks within an
>>>application."
>>
>> So if I write:
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>> 	system("ls | wc -l");
>> 	return 0;
>> }
>>
>> Thats a script?
>
>The "ls | wc -l" part is a script, passed off for execution to a
>language that mainly supports scripting.

So its not a script.

>Note the non-scripting features here like "int main",
>which doesn't /do/ anything, and typically the need to compile
>and link this in order to run it.

There may be plenty of surrounding code that does do something.

>> No? What if I use popen() or execve() then? Where do you
>> draw the line?
>
>If you use popen and execve, you're using more systems programming
>functional blocks that are not scripting commands.

They both call high level commands so is it scripting or programming?

>> I'm not being obtuse. There is no hard dividing line between scripts and
>
>Right now you're doubling down on obtusity, by my estimate.

Perhaps you don't understand what being obtuse actually means.