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It’s all admittedly a somewhat handwaving discussion, but in ‘systems programming’ ‘systems’ is generally understood to be opposite to ‘applications’, not ‘scri
by leoc 3y ago
It’s all admittedly a somewhat handwaving discussion, but in ‘systems programming’ ‘systems’ is generally understood to be opposite to ‘applications’, not ‘scripts’.
- randomdata 3y agoAll software is application. That’s what software is for!
- bmicraft 3y agoI wouldn't consider a driver an application
- randomdata 3y agoapplication: the action of putting something into operation What's a driver if not something that carries out an action of putting something (an electronic device, typically) into operation?
- kazinator 3y agoWe live in an age in which a PC running an OS, which has drivers in it, is something that can be done by Javascript in a browser.