Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:21:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. Message-ID: <199803022321.QAA24739@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <E0y9aLf-0003rc-00@oak75.doc.ic.ac.uk> from "Niall Smart" at Mar 2, 98 06:53:58 pm
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> > > 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? Uh, "day one"? > C is translated into assembler which is interpreted by the hardware > in my Intel processor, does that make C or assembler scripting langauges? > No. Right. No. It makes them compiled languages, or more formally, native instruction set languages. JAVA can be this... on JAVA chips. LISP can be this on Symbolics machines. > What if I use the Bochs interpreter? Still no. BOCHs is not an interpreter, it's a simulator. You are confusing interpretation, simulation, and emulation. > 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. Iterative programming is not ideally suited to interpretation. An interpretive language that allows it to be done anyway is a scripting language. Would you feel more comfortable if I discarded the term "scripting" in favor of "interpretive"? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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