Scripting question, [small programming question

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon May 23 17:15:13 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 13:02 -0400, grumman Fan wrote:
> 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"?

No, "scripting" is a subset of "programming". It's programming in a
script language.

> "I scripted a new Linux kernel today."
Well, it depends on how you define "kernel". It might surprise you, but
there exist low-level OSes where low-level code is interpreted or
"scripted".

Ralf





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