Novel Thoughts on Scripting and Languages

[Tim Cargile]

Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1042098856.11350.python-list at python.org>...
> In your travels you are likely to meet people who think that 
> 'programming language' == compiled and 'scripting language' == interpreted.
> They usually believe everybody else uses language this way, as well.
> 
> Laura Creighton

You made an excellent point while being very diplomatic. Great post!
But these are the same people who create 'script' directories,
place '.sh' and '.pl' extensions on the main executables making it
difficult to migrate it to another language and to follow conventional
(UNIX at least) source versioning, and generally don't get it.

Errr ... then, of course, there is this '*.py' extension convention ...

Tim