MS-DOS batch does have conditional logic.
I was going to chime in that a "programming language" must have at least
that: conditional logic.
Phil initially asked if looping is required, but conditional logic along
with branching quickly gives us looping.
IT MAY BE that to qualify as a "scripting language" does not require
conditional logic.
Until this thought, I would have considered any scripting language to
also be a "programming language".
As it is, all scripting languages that I know of (including CLIST) are
also programming languages.
-- R; <><
On 11/11/24 2:13 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
I don't remember either, but I do remember that Relay had "Beyond .bat", a
.bat-like language that did a lot more, used for Relay/Gold emulator scripting. That
suggests that it was pretty weak. Doesn't mean anything you said isn't right, of course.
(And I'm NOT sorry that I don't remember those details--best forgotten!)
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My recollection is that BAT had conditional logic since the original PC-DOS; I
don't recall what it was like in CP/M. CLIST, OTOH, became a programming
language in OS/VS3 3.8, as I recall. I may check bitsavers on that last.
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