On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 4:41:22 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote: > rusi writes: > > 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.
The essay is 15 years old. So a bit dated. Referred to it as it conveys the sense/philosophy of scripting. > > > 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. > My personal associations with the word 'scripting' - Cavalier attitude towards efficiency - No interest (and maybe some scorn) towards over-engineering (hence OOP) - Heavy use of regular expressions, also sophistication of the command-line args - A sense (maybe vague) of being glue more than computation, eg. a bash script is almost certain to invoke something other than builtins alone and is more likely to invoke a non-bash script than a bash script. For a C program that likelihood is the other way round. For python it could be either -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
