Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <f054lt810sfp5l4on6gro7t5d7ntp267i4@4ax.com>,
David Cantrell  <usenet-20010705@barnyard.co.uk> wrote:
 
> 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.  Just because some people use them as that
> does not mean that that is all they can do.  I have written some
> rather large applications in perl, and colleagues have done the same
> in python.  They are fully-fledged programming languages.
 
You could say the same thing about e.g. Javascript too: it has a full
set of bit-fiddling operations, numeric operations, string operations,
and it's even object oriented.  But it's still considered a 'script'
language....
 
The reason these languages are called 'script' languages is probably
because programs in these languages usually are interpreted rather
than compiled.
 
"But Basic is interpreted too!!!" I hear you cry.  Yes, it used to
be, but that was a long time ago - today it's usually compiled.
However, it is still sometimes interpreted - one such example is
VB-script.
 
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