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 meani

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.