>A script is a wrapper around all of your programs and becomes a superset of all of them. lololol that has got to be the most unusual definition I have ever heard of a script. According to your definition, a macro in a word processer is a superset of the entire word processer. I disagree.
Using text is not a requirement of a wrapper!! This is getting funnier and funnier. > Maybe you are used to some more restricted form of scripting. Nope. I am not a scripter. I am a programmer. We use terms consistently otherwise confusion would result. We have to communicate with each other and work together so when we use terms like "wrapper" it generally means the same thing. We can have a wrapper to encapsulate code, redefine the api, but I never, ever heard of a list of command (script) called a wrapper. What else ya gat? John -----Original Message----- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:12 PM To: John Maher Cc: Andreas Krey; David Chapman; Mark Phippard; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: general questions On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:57 PM, John Maher <jo...@rotair.com> wrote: >> > A script is just a subset of a full fledged program. In other words, a > program can do all a script can do and more. That's the part you don't seem to be getting. A script is a wrapper around all of your programs and becomes a superset of all of them. At least the ones that are capable of using and generating text. It is not just limited to what any single program can do - or what is on any single machine for that matter assuming you have a tool like ssh available. At least that's the unix-inspired way of thinking. Maybe you are used to some more restricted form of scripting. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
