Scripting question, [small programming question

[Steven W. Orr]

On Monday, May 23rd 2005 at 13:02 -0400, quoth grumman Fan:

=>On 5/23/05, John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
=>> Jeff Kinz wrote:
=>> > This isn't a programming question.  Its a scripting question.
=>> scripts meet most IT definitions of "program."
=>
=>So "scripting" is the same thing as "programming"?
=>
=>"I scripted a new Linux kernel today."
=>
=>Ha. snort.

If it makes you feel better, don't think in term of "scripting language". 
Think instead in terms of Very High Level Language. Things like perl or 
ruby or python or tcl qualify. They are intended to be scripting languages 
that are reasonable (or better) choices for use as system implementation 
languages. There are constructs in OOPs that are available in perl that 
are not available in C++. Just because it's interpreted doesn't mean it's 
not real. And todays interpreters are a lot faster than you might think.

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