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Scripting vs. Programming
Rover:
I was thinking about the origins of scripting. I think that Unix shell scripting would be among the first scripts. I'm open to correction on that.
As I think about things in that light, scripts are special purpose, automation tools. Think "Read from the script." They tend to much less user interactive. The purpose is to automate a routine or tedious task. ie: start my web server with all of it's command line parameters.
There seems to be a fuzzy line where a script can become an application when you start adding more options and/or user control.
I must be up to 4 cents by now.... :two: :two:
mukestar:
ive just got a black and white way of looking at it
If it contains variables its programming
I.e html is just mark up , its not programming
JavaJones:
Mukestart that's actually a really interesting distinction. As a non-programmer I can't claim a deep enough understanding to say whether that's really legitimate, but somehow it makes a little bit of intuitive sense to me. ;)
- Oshyan
mukestar:
I actually got it from my old boss, we had a web designer trying to chat up the receptionist and was telling her he was a programmer, and my boss shouted across the room
"Your not a F****ng programmer, you wouldn`t know a variable if it bit you on the arse"
Oh happy days
mouser:
lol
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