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Geek Culture / A simple question. . .

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Dances With Robots
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OK, so I'm demonstrating some serious ignorance here. But a post in another thread got me wondering. . .

"What exactly IS the difference between scripting and programming?"

I mean, when I look at, say, LUA scripts, or (*blush*) LSL scripts, I see what looks a lot like basic source code.

Anyone care to enlighten a simpleton?
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Indicium
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I think that a script, such as php, python, is executed at runtime, meaning that the line of code will be run when it reaches it. Programming languages are generally complied into machine code as far as I'm aware, such as c++, c#, and darkbasic pro.

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heyufool1
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Scripting languages are generally executed on virtual machine too

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 4th Feb 2011 22:41
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Yeah. scripting is just executed on runtime. while code is compiled before its executed

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n008
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So Java is a scripting language? And C#?

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Indicium
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I believe Java is complied, but runs on a virtual machine, I don't know what you mean by c# however

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Benjamin
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I'm not sure there's a clear definition between a scripting language and a programming language. Some languages overlap the range of proposed differences between the two.
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TheComet
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So DBC is a scripting language?

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Rampage
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DBC compiles.

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n008
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DBC, Java, and C# are all interpreted and executed at runtime. Java does have the ability to compile to native code, but this is not the norm or original intention.

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crispex
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C# isn't really even a "real" programming language. It's a mixture of Java, JavaScript (only on Jquery and JSON based elements), and C.

Anyway, look at it this way, when you're baking a cake you get all the ingredients together before hand, then mix them up and bake them. This is a programming language.

Now, assume that the cake is there, but you want to put some icing on it, you do it "on the fly" in real time, covering the cake as you go along. This is scripting.

JavaScript, Lua, C#, DBC, PHP (well, it's actually parsed before the page loads entirely, but still considered a scripting language), and Python are some examples of scripting languages.

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Dances With Robots
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Thanks for the answers guys. After reading your posts I did a little research and it seems that the lines are a little fuzzy.
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ionstream
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There is no clear distinction between scripting and programming, and I would say that scripting IS programming, while programming isn't necessarily scripting. Often the term scripting will be used to describe adding on to a program through the use of scripts. You might program a game engine in C++, but if that game engine has an embedded Python interpreter, then I would be "scripting" if I wrote scripts for that game engine. I consider myself to be programming when I write something in Python that doesn't run inside another program (except Python itself).

And C# is definitely a real programming language.

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I think scripting is basically entering complex commands into a system that has been pre-prepared by a programming language.
Like in FPSC you write scripts to "program" your game but the structure has already been set up for you.


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