----- Original Message ---- From: imacat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:19:15 -0500 > Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (Re-making my mental note to transcribe "Stop saying 'script'"....) > > Sorry I might be off-topic, but why "Stop saying 'script'"? I have > searched the google and found nothing on this. I thought "script" is > the formal term to referring them from the beginning, and throughout my > documentation. If someone could provide more information or relative > resources on this issue, I would be very appreciated.
Because Perl programs are programs. I get tired of people dismissing what I do for a living as 'mere scripting' even though there's a darn good chance I've worked on systems (in Perl) far larger than many which they have. By referring to Perl programs as scripts, even if they're short programs, we reinforce the false notion that Perl is some toy language. Heck, if I found out a C programmer hacked out a quick 50 line program to solve a problem, should I just dismiss that program as a script? Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book -- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
