On May 22, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Andy Lester wrote:
On May 22, 2007, at 11:07 AM, David Nicol wrote:
outside of computers, "script" is a better term for the carefully
tuned deliverables that software engineer produce than is
"program." Your basic mundane citizen considers a "program"
a list of things that will occur in an evening, or a document
they are handed when they occasionally get out to the opera,
while "script" is something mysterious, yet cruciual for
the production of television shows, produced by professionals
who are legendary for failing to get the girl.
None of that has any bearing on the sort of change in thinking I'm
working on.
Sure it does. You're trying to get people not to use the word
"script" for "perl program". David says he considers "script" the
best word for it, and says why. How can that not have any bearing?
-Ken
