Some of the tools commonly called scripting languages in the Linux
world are clearly very functional programming languages as well -- e.g.
Python, which even supports all the common and some less common math
functions, SQL calls, all that stuff. I think the close integration
with ability to create, issue system commands and parse their results in
some way is more fundamental to the concept of scripting than the
ability to perform computations, and some ability to perform
computations within the scripting language is also needed just to create
commands when the rules for generation are not trivial.
JC Ewing
On 11/11/24 1:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:37:41 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote:
By the way, I know that the meaning of "scripting" has melted quite a bit since its
original designation, but I don't use it (or "macro") about the so-called scripting
languages. ...
What was that original designation?
Let me tty. A scripting language can perform useful computation
only by invoking an external program.
Has anyone ever performed a useful computation in JCL without
using an EXEC statement? (Oops. That would be a syntax
error. Perhaps I should admit an ineffective IEFBR14 step.)
--
Joel C Ewing
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