Some history: https://www.quora.com/Is-coding-the-same-as-writing-script/answer/Kirby-Urner
Is coding the same as writing script? <https://www.quora.com/Is-coding-the-same-as-writing-script> <https://www.quora.com/profile/Kirby-Urner> Kirby Urner <https://www.quora.com/profile/Kirby-Urner> · 1h ago <https://www.quora.com/Is-coding-the-same-as-writing-script/answer/Kirby-Urner> Founder at 4D Solutions I’d say so. Coding is the same as scripting. Writing a program is writing a script. However “scripting” has had varying connotations over the years. People spoke of Perl as a “scripting language” and the idea was a script was more likely a one-off, a quick and dirty way to get something done in a hurry, inhouse. Serious software built for the ages would not use a “scripting language”. That meaning morphed into “agile” as people (coders) realized that agile dynamically typed high level languages were indeed suitable for production code and frameworks. The Perl Mongers (Perl users) were encouraged to rehabilitate “scripting language” as a term they could use with pride. JavaScript, at first dismissed as just a mere toy inside the web browser (then a novelty), became the king of the agiles. I’d add that “coding” didn’t used to be as popular a synonym for “programming” as it is today. People used to “learn to program” not “code”. Guido van Rossum’s Computer Programming for Everybody (CP4E) initiative was prescient in that coding may now be done in snippets, in the context of a Jupyter Notebook say, by people who do not consider themselves professional programmers. Guido invented Python, another agile or “scripting language” similar to Perl and later Ruby (Ruby owes more to Perl than Python I’d say). In contrast to the high level agiles, we still have the “systems” languages that run faster once written, but take a lot longer to write (C++ being the standard example of a systems language). These days, coders are bioengineers, medical doctors, statisticians. Coding is about using one more tool. You don’t need a degree in computer science. Again, as the culture keeps changing, so do the connotations of words, even more so than the denotations. 41 views View Upvoters · Answer requested by Melonie Tuttle <https://www.quora.com/profile/Melonie-Tuttle-1>
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