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Ulf Dittmer wrote:I must say I don't really like any of the definitions Google comes up with. The closest to a one-line definition I can think up is: A language that is not compiled, or where the result of the compilation is not kept long term.
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Abimaran Kugathasan wrote:
Ulf Dittmer wrote:I must say I don't really like any of the definitions Google comes up with. The closest to a one-line definition I can think up is: A language that is not compiled, or where the result of the compilation is not kept long term.
Could you please give an example for where the result of the compilation is not kept long term? Which language?
Thanks!
Abimaran Kugathasan wrote:Could you please give an example for where the result of the compilation is not kept long term? Which language?
Devesh H Rao wrote:.class
Ulf Dittmer wrote:
Java is actually a mixed case. Source files are compiled into class files, and those are kept around long term. And then the bytecode contained in class files is usually compiled again at runtime into native code, but that native code is thrown away when the JVM terminates.
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Pat Farrell wrote:I'm not even sure that the "scripting language" distinction is meaningful anymore. Does the phrase have value as anything other than a put-down: You are not a real programmer, you just use a scripting language.
Joe Ess wrote:
I've been using Python to create scripts lately, so to me, it is a "scripting language". Except when I write Python programs. Then it's a "programming language".
Henry Wong wrote: or whether it has regular expressions support or not.