To Bob's point about scripting languages--I like his definition and agree with him from a purist perspective, but suspect that a practical definition of "scripting language" simply means it has good OS integration, i.e., it's easy to do a bunch of commands, maybe get back results in program variables, stuff like that (with the degree of those functions varying between scripting languages).
I'm sure we've all spent far too much time using some NON-scripting language and Googling, trying to figure out "How the heck do I issue this simple system command--I don't even care about the result beyond maybe a return code?" and that's often surprisingly difficult. With the things that people call "scripting languages", that's always super-easy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
