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| From: | tiggr@ics.ele.tue.nl (Pieter Schoenmakers) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1998 21:36:37 -0500 |
| Organization: | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| References: | 98-03-032 98-03-098 98-03-141 98-03-147 98-03-159 98-03-186 98-03-201 98-03-233 |
| Keywords: | interpreter |
| In-reply-to: | Chris Reedy's message of 24 Mar 1998 22:53:40 -0500 |
Chris Reedy <creedy@mitretek.org> writes:
A quick question: What are the key differences between a scripting
language and an ordinary programming language?
John Ousterhout (creator of TCL, CEO of Scriptics (www.scriptics.com))
has been going on about this for, what, the past half year.
Basically, he defines a language to be either a scripting language or
a system programming language, and then goes on comparing the two
based on his definition of the two. IMO, not a very inspiring
excercise.
http://www.scriptics.com/people/john.ousterhout/scripting.html seems
to be the latest paper on the subject. (I haven't read this
particular paper; just found it when looking for the original; from
the abstract it seems to match the subject.) --Tiggr
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