On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 15:40, Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote:
> By the way, what in y'all's opinion is the proper use of the word "macro"? > I hear the term "Excel macro" all the time, for example, but how is it not, > simply, a program? My own idea (not worth very much, but it is my own) is > that a macro is a series of commands, such as we used to have in the old DOS > .bat language. But as soon as the syntax starts allowing for IF and GOTO > statements, it's no longer a macro; it's a program. Same thing with the word "script". That too is just a program, non? (Well obviously script and program[me] have other, non-computer usages.) I think script tends to be used for some loose combination of non-compiled language and housekeeping tasks. So you write a REXX or Lua or whatever program to run your fancy job, but a 10,000 line REXX thing that could have been written in COBOL is a program. But then there's Java and Javascript. Java used to be the thing server code was written in, but now Javascript does a lot of that stuff too. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
