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Does he mean 'scripting' is something different than 'programming'? I don't see the difference. And why doesn't he just call it programming then? Because that'

• code_duck 15y ago
  I'm willing to believe that WordPress was written through a process of 'scripting' and doesn't count as programming.
• sthatipamala 15y ago
  I feel like programming has more forethought into the design and architecture of the system. This is what developers are trained to do. However, many of my peers at uni who are scientists, economists and linguists have picked up on domain-specific languages (MATLAB, R, etc) and are capable of writing one-off scripts to solve their problems. These people are "scripting".
• drdaeman 15y ago
  I don't know what he exactly meant, but there are certainly several shades of that, like there are (sometimes, obscure and subtle) differences between the meanings¹ of "bashing some lines together", "coding", "programming", "software engineering" and "computer science research". "Scripting" feels like a relatively small coding task, to automate (frequently, to prevent repetitive routine work) of operating some complex software system by quickly defining high-level behavior required to preform the job. But this "definition" is vague, could be applied to "non-scripting" as well, and, moreover, I somehow doubt there could be any precise definition what "scripting" is. ____ 1) I'm not a native English speaker, so this is just how I perceive things.