RE: Good resource for beginning programmers

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:40:38 -0500

OK I think your definition is over complex.  Here is mine.

If you can read the code of an application without decompiling it or reading
it with a special editor and it makes no extra files when it runs.  It is a
script.  Now notice I don't say it's a scripting language because if someone
wanted to get cute they could take even php and compile it to an executable
and then it would not be a scripting language.  So it's simply a language
that doesn't compile to an intermediate something-a-rother before running.

Ken

Ken

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Here is my definition of scripting language. I think the classification 
should not so clear. There shouldn't be a frontier between these two terms.
A scripting language is a programming language designed to be executed 
within another program.
Examples :
- javascript is usually a scripting language because it is executed within 
web pages
- VBA is a scripting language because it is executed inside word or excel
- Some softwares and games include an embedded lua, python or ruby 
interpreters to allow the user to customize  the application. In that case, 
these languages are also scripting languages. But lua, python and ruby can 
also be executed standalone, in that case they are just programming 
languages and not scripting languages.
- It exists ways to execute javascript and VBScript as a standalone programs

(WSH in windows) even if it is not very frequent. IN that particular case, 
they shouldn't be considered as scripting languages.
- Languages such as Java, C, C++ and C# are usually not scripting languages 
because they are allmost always compiled and run standalone. But we can 
imagine an application embedding one of those as a scripting language. For 
example, TCC library can make C looking like scripting language, even if it 
is still compiled internally.


Hope that wont make you even more confused.

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