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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 genera
by 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.