On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 4:23 AM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is one of those really dumb questions, but can I call > what I write in Perl a "program" or a "script"? Or, does > it even matter? >
My point of view is it does not matter. Usually a script is something that is not compiled, rather interpreted on the fly (where "interpreted" could include any sort of JIT or alike compilation). In this sense there are a set of languages like Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, that are scripting languages. Think about Java vs Groovy. That said, the camel book is _Programming_ Perl... I tend to use, in fluent speak, the term "script" to mean a little program written in a not-manually-compiled language, a program anything manually-compiled or big. I would not call a javascript piece of code ehm.. a program, but I would not say a whole node.js application is a script... Luca
