From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!news-feed.ifi.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Is there a useful distinction between "programming" and "scripting" languages? Date: 20 Sep 2002 08:17:43 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3241498663995485@naggum.no> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1032509864 27444 129.240.64.16 (20 Sep 2002 08:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Sep 2002 08:17:44 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:41361 * Erann Gat | It's interesting how many people answered a different question from the one | I actually asked. The question many people are answering in this thread is: | "Is there a distinction between scrtiping languages and programming | languages (and if so what is it)?" But the question I posed was "Is there a | USEFUL distinction?" I believe most people would want to know what the distinctions are before they judge them useful or not. A priori usefulness tend not to exist, so the obvious answer to the question is "no" /before/ one does careful study. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.