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The distinction between script and program is a legacy of how a lot of software worked 30 years ago. Compiled systems languages were fast, but required slow, A

The distinction between script and program is a legacy of how a lot of software worked 30 years ago. Compiled systems languages were fast, but required slow, AOT compilation, often had poor interactivity, and dealing with aggregate types (including strings) was unwieldy. So you wrote your libraries in programming languages, and you glued them together with scripting languages.

kens 3y ago
Yes, the difference made sense decades in the past when a script was a collection of commands that were followed like a written script, and a program was general-purpose code that was executed. But now, scripting languages have morphed into general-purpose programming languages and the distinction doesn't make much sense. E.g. JavaScript, Perl, Python, Lua, Ruby.