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I just think of a script program as one where textual source code is involved at runtime. If I can throw a thing over the wall to you that's runnable and doesn

by frou_dh 13y ago

I just think of a script program as one where textual source code is involved at runtime. If I can throw a thing over the wall to you that's runnable and doesn't contain textual source code then that's a compiled program.

krallja 13y ago
To clarify: Python is not a scripting language because you can throw a .pyc over the wall to me, but Ruby is a scripting language because it has no intermediate bytecode representation?
- frou_dh 13y ago
  I didn't mention the word language. That's folly as one of the top comments says.