>That's a bit of a generalisation, isn't it? PHP is still scripting, but it
>has relatively cryptic syntax.
Stewart,
depends in whose definition of scripting you believe. HyperCard invented
the term "scripting" to find a clean, fresh name for a way of programming
that doesn't frighten away non-programmers. Then later, someone probably
saw HyperCard's drawing commands and thought scripting was automating or
remote-controlling user actions, and so macro languages were also moved
into the "scripting" category.
Today it is only a little short of a universal word that means
"programming" but sounds cooler. cf. JavaScript/ECMAScript and the likes. I
used the HyperCard definition of scripting.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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