What's the broader context for the questions (both scripting and programming)? Out of context, i'd agree that the examples are indeed scripting and programming. If you were applying for a job that required scripting and Perl programming, the examples would merely be the start of a conversation.
________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > >> A call for opinion, or a pseudo poll. >> >> Consider someone at the command line, needs some information, decides to: >> >> me@server $ for S in `cat list_of_servers`;do echo " $S"; ssh $S >> 'command'; done >> >> In your mind is that scripting? >> > > In my mind, I've always differentiated between one-liners (regardless of > complexity) and scripting, though I'll admit the distinction is blurry. > > The related question is somewhat obvious. Is this programming? > > perl -e 'foreach $num (1 .. 20) {print "x" x $num, "\n";}' > > -- > Paul Heinlein > [email protected] > 45°38' N, 122°6' W > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
