[OT] difference of Scripting and programming

[Nathaniel Hall]

Jeff Kinz wrote:
> Made this an [OT] for Matt Miller's sake.
> 
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:10:56PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>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"?
>>>
>>>"I scripted a new Linux kernel today."
>>
>>Scripting is a subset of programming, and nobody suggested otherwise.
> 
> The confusion between "what is scripting" and "what is programming"
> rises from the different levels in the set of activities called 
> "programming".

My personal thought is that programs are compiled prior to the user executing it.  A script is compiled at the time it 
is run.  Is that a good way to differentiate them?

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