opening a text document to show a .txt file through abrowserlink
Cliff Wells
clifford.wells at attbi.com
Wed Jan 1 01:31:23 EST 2003
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 20:08, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Cliff Wells wrote:
>
> > Do the same with a bash shell script. Then explain to me how the
> > dozens
> > of system maintenence scripts I have on my system aren't programs.
>
> I think this is another red herring. Did anyone claim that shell
> scripts aren't programming languages? I wouldn't think so, because they
> clearly are.
No, he said that because you couldn't do a computation in HTML that it
can't be a programming language. Shell scripts are generally considered
programs and yet in many you can't do a computation either. That was my
point.
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Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at attbi.com>
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