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Reading this comment, I realized I always thought: Scripting == interpreted Is that not the case?

• throwawaymaths 4y ago
  In my mind scripting means what it is: You read a file like a script from top to bottom and run it. Declarations are actually instructions for a "declarer routine". There's usually no predefined entry point function, and if there is one it's optional. Compiled/interpreted is kind of besides the point. Julia (compiled, btw), ruby, python, php, perl, bash, JavaScript thus are all scripting languages. Java, c, c#, go, f# rust, zig, Erlang, some flavors of lisp, node-style javascript, are not. There are some corner cases. I consider elixir, for example to be a scripting language for it's own compiler which produces a very much non-scripted result.