From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 10:54:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21826 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:54:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heron.doc.ic.ac.uk (65z1DJLrMSossLiZcsQVrsOCrwZQ1c8g@heron.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA21816 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:54:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk) Received: from oak75.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.16.20] ([4kBefdMkoIOnJo9VfpJstS/emfECHkfB]) by heron.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0y9aM6-0005BP-00; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:54:26 +0000 Received: from njs3 by oak75.doc.ic.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0y9aLf-0003rc-00; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:53:59 +0000 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 18:53:58 +0000 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert "Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool." (Mar 2, 4:42pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Terry Lambert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mar 2, 4:42pm, Terry Lambert wrote: } Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. > > But old isn't necessarily bad, and Java isn't a scripting language. And > > scripting launguages have a very valuable role in this problem domain. > > You must not be running the same JAVA *interpreter* I run... Since when has the manner in which a program is "executed" decided if it is a scripting langauge? C is translated into assembler which is interpreted by the hardware in my Intel processor, does that make C or assembler scripting langauges? No. What if I use the Bochs interpreter? Still no. You wouldn't make a distinction between imperative, functional and logic programming languages based on their execution mode, but rather in their approach to expressing relationships and algorithms, it is the same with scripting languages. Niall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message