rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > On Monday, June 24, 2013 11:50:38 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > > Any time someone has shown me a “Python script”, I don't see how > > it's different from what I'd call a “Python program”. So I just > > mentally replace “scripting with “programming”. > > If you are saying that python spans the scripting to programming > spectrum exceptionally well, I agree.
I'm saying that “scripting” is a complete subset of “programming”, so it's nonsense to talk about “the scripting-to-programming spectrum”. Scripting is, always, programming. Scripts are, always, programs. (But not vice-versa; I do acknowledge there is more to programming than scripting.) I say this because anything anyone has said to me about the former is always something included already by the latter. So I don't see much need for treating scripts as somehow distinct from programs, or scripting as somehow distinct from programming. Whenever you're doing the former, you're doing the latter by definition. > I dont however think that the two philosophies are the same. See > http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html That essay constrasts “scripting” versus “system programming”, a useful (though terminologically confusing) distinction. It's a mistake to think that essay contrasts “scripting“ versus “programming”. But the essay never justifies its aversion to “programming” as a term for what it's describing, so that mistake is easy to make. -- \ “A celebrity is one who is known by many people he is glad he | `\ doesn't know.” —Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
