Scripting question, [small programming question

[John Summerfied]

Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:33:18AM -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 08:33 -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote:
>>
>>>This isn't a programming question.  Its a scripting question.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>This is definitely a scripting question.  However, to correct your
>>terminology, scripting *_is_* programming.  
> 
> 
> Good, then the terms are completely interchangeable:
> 
> Can you write a Fortran script? Or an assembly language script?
> How about a C++ script? 

Your logic has failed, and you're making yourself seem foolish.
p->q does not mean
q->p

As someone else said, scripting is a kind of programming.

> 
> 
> 
>>Shell scripting is programming in an interpreted language, as is perl,
>>python, and and many other languages.

Intepreters exist for fortran, PL/1, COBOL, Java is an interpreted 
language though compilers for (much of) it exist. I don't think anyone 
would say that Java programs are scripts.




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