[OT] difference of Scripting and programming

John Summerfied debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue May 24 11:27:54 UTC 2005


Shahzad Chohan wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> The way I see it is:
> 
> a script is file with code that hasn't been compiled, its is compiled
> during run time, for example web php and perl code are examples of 
> scripting.
> 
> A program is one that has been compiled and run as a compiled binary.
> 
> Hope this helps

It helps ... muddy the water because it's wrong.

Scripts are mostly the glue used join OS commands together. Languages 
used for scripting are mostly HLLs (High Level Languages) whereas most 
compiled languages are third-generation. And aren't always compiled.



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