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It's a scripting language in the classic sense -- limited such that you could not write a real application in it, but useful orchestrating activities delegated
by spacemanmatt 11y ago
It's a scripting language in the classic sense -- limited such that you could not write a real application in it, but useful orchestrating activities delegated to it. And like all classic scripting languages it should be replaced with a real language embedded or exposed such as Clojure or Python. IMNSHO.
- erikb 11y agoNot being a language doesn't mean you can't do meaningful things with it. My car is also not a language but a very valuable tool. Just like something is a car because it has 4 wheels, a motor and an enclosed space to sit in, in the same way something becomes a programming language by having a defined grammar. That's all. No reason to think I disregarded someone's favorite tool.