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O HAI! It's Slashdot 2001 again. Historically there was a meaningful distinction between scripting and programming: A script is interpreted, so you trade off s
by mseebach 15y ago
O HAI! It's Slashdot 2001 again.
Historically there was a meaningful distinction between scripting and programming: A script is interpreted, so you trade off slow execution for no compilation. A program is compiled, so you get fast execution but slow compilation.
Today (as in 2001) both compilation and execution is so fast, for most use cases it doesn't really matter which you do. JITs further washes out the distinction.