Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > >IMO, a "scripting language" is used to automate tasks that would >otherwise be done by a human sitting at a keyboard typing commands. >[Perhaps that definition should be extended to include tasks that >would otherwise by done by a human sitting and clicking on a GUI.]
I think that definition is a little too neat and clean. Most people would call bash a "scripting language", but it is also clearly a programming language. It has syntax, variables and expressions. I suspect it is Turing-complete, although I haven't seen a proof of that. I would assert that scripting languages are a proper subset of programming languages, not a separate category. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
