On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 10:57 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:07 AM +0100, Gavin Henry is alleged to > have said: > > > P.S. I am now a programmer or a scripter, I am not sure is perl is > > programming or scripting? I think programming. > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > Short answer: Yes. (It is at least one of the two.) ;) > > Long answer... You honestly don't want to get into it. You start > devolving into arguments over what is 'scripting' versus what is > 'programming', and from there what is best...
I would say Perl is at least both. Allow me to devolve.. The act of writing a perl program is script in in that you're simply (or not so simply) instructing /usr/bin/perl to do stuff based on you "script". You're running the source code with an interpreter, so to speak. Perl programing is programing in that the word "programing" is loosely defined enough such that even COBOL is a programming language. So long as the "language" has constructs that allow you to tell the machine it's running on to do something and not just a parsing specification, I'd say you'd be hard pressed to argue it's not a language. Whoever said that just because your handiwork isn't converted to a format that the kernel itself parses into machine code which it then feeds to a CPU that you're code isn't a program? What's java? It has an interpreter, and it isn't machine code, right? Oh yeah, it's a "run time system"... Oh, I forgot. There. Hopefully that made enough sense, and will end all devolving.
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