Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se> writes: > Regarding the book's title: is it just me, or are Python programmers > in general put off when people call it "scripting"? > > I won't attempt a strict definition of the term "scripting language", > but it seems like non-programmers use it to mean "less scary than what > you might think of as programming", while programmers interpret it as > "not useful as a general-purpose language".
For me "scripting" means something like "task automation within a given program or environment", in contrast to "wring a stand-alone program". Florian -- <http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/easygconf/> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
