What is a Script Anyway? : Closing the Gap

by Erik Troan

Shame on me. I didn’t define my terms.

Some folks were unhappy with my post about the evils of scripting, but not for the reason I expected. Instead, they thought I was attacking scripting languages. I’m a big fan of interpreted languages (same thing, different word); I’m the guy who put Python into Red Hat Linux in 1995, got the engineers building anaconda to...