On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:44:19PM +0300, Juha Manninen (gmail) wrote: > > P.S. > "Scripting language" term is used loosely for "dynamic languages" like Perl, > Python and Ruby,
Dynamic typic and scripting are not related. Scripting usually points towards a more interpretive way of execution. You can have statically typed scripting and dynamic compilation, and with all the JIT experimentation with the above (Parrot, J and Iron variants), shell script is maybe more "scripting" than any of the above. > although they are suited for structured programming better > than bash. Bash has been called (shell)scripting for 4 decades now. Probably longer than the three above exist combined -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus