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"How do we decide what is a scripting language and what is not?" -> John K Ousterhout decided in 1997 (because, IFAIK, he invented the term). It was quite brill
by fermigier 8y ago
"How do we decide what is a scripting language and what is not?" -> John K Ousterhout decided in 1997 (because, IFAIK, he invented the term). It was quite brilliant at the time, IMHO.
Now, 20 years, later, I consider his dichotomy outdated on several levels. I did a talk about this 7 years ago ( https://fr.slideshare.net/sfermigier/four-python-pains https://fr.slideshare.net/sfermigier/four-python-pains ).