On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, sridevi arjunan wrote:
> Could anyone briefly explain the difference
> between the shell script and the scripting language
> like perl?
Shell scripts are higher level than Perl (which is pretty high level
itself, compared to other langauges). The main aspect of a shell script
is that they usually lack more advanced features of a full programming
language, like references (storing the memory address of a data
structure), data types, complex data structures and recursion. Perl grew
out of various shell scripting environments and text filtering languages,
but grew into a fully-featured programming language and not just a
scripting language.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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