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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:52:42 +0100
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I demand that David Cantrell may or may not have written...
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:33:27 +0200, "T.J.T van Kooten"
> <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl> said:
>> Having used Pascal myself I would have to agree on using a system like
>> Delphi. Although my heart these days is with Python. But that's a script
>> language ( I wish i had this as a kid, so clear and well structured!)
> I don't know why people insist on calling languages like python and perl
> 'script' languages. [...]
The way that I differentiate between 'script' and 'compiled' languages is,
roughly, this...
If the compilation (and linking) step is commonly separate (C, C++, Pascal,
Ada...), it's a compiled language.
If the compilation step is integrated into the runtime environment (Perl,
Python (I think)), it's a scripted language.
If the compilation step is omitted altogether (BBC BASIC and purely 8-bit
BASICs), it's an interpreted language.
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