Scripting (was Re: Python books, literature etc)
Florian Diesch
diesch at spamfence.net
Fri Jan 8 21:29:41 EST 2010
Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp at snipabacken.se> writes:
> Regarding the book's title: is it just me, or are Python programmers
> in general put off when people call it "scripting"?
>
> I won't attempt a strict definition of the term "scripting language",
> but it seems like non-programmers use it to mean "less scary than what
> you might think of as programming", while programmers interpret it as
> "not useful as a general-purpose language".
For me "scripting" means something like "task automation within a given
program or environment", in contrast to "wring a stand-alone program".
Florian
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