Comments on: Scripting vs. programming: is there a difference?

By: Stefan Mischook

Stefan Mischook — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:49:13 +0000

“… what scripting language would be considered as the back bone of all languages?
”

There is no father of all the languages in terms of basic structures. Well, I would say that most modern languages these days owe a lot to the C programming language.

By: Mitz

Mitz — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:08:03 +0000

As someone who is fairly new to this area, i would just like to thank you for the descriptions, but somthing i would like to know is, what scripting language would be considered as the back bone of all languages?

By: Stefan Mischook

Stefan Mischook — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:30:56 +0000

Hi,

Just read the very first paragraph of the article:

“These days, the line between a scripting language and a programming language is blurred. As such, in practical application, the differences are meaningless. So the answer is: no.”

There you go.

Don’t get to bothered by this … it isn’t that important.

Stefan

By: karthik

karthik — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:19:02 +0000

Good one.

But i don’t know what to conclude.

After reading some comments i thought that i understood. But now i am again confused.

As per the discussion it seems that there is no specific difference between programming language and scripting language?

By: Evan Donovan

Evan Donovan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:36:22 +0000

Best comparison between scripting & programming languages I’ve seen. Also one of the top hits on Google for “scripting vs. programming.”

By: Nataraj.R

Nataraj.R — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:44:15 +0000

Thanks, For all,

The information provided was Nice.

It will also help for beginners.

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:44:35 +0000

Thanks a lot for the nice article.
It really helps

By: cowfish

cowfish — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:06:44 +0000

Just to clarify my post above. By “under” I mean a scripting language is a typeOf programming language.

By: cowfish

cowfish — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:01:16 +0000

I’d say that scripting languages fall *under* programming languages. I would say that any set of vocabulary that allows the definition of an algorithm, is essentially a programming language. Logical I reckon. If you look at PHP5 (and the upcoming PHP6), the support for most modern programming constructs are there, the most obvious one being OOP. In everyway, it is a programming language.

Then as you say, people can get academic about it …

I’m a Java/C++/PHP programmer. Always learning new stuff though.

By: Stefan Mischook

Stefan Mischook — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:11:47 +0000

If you want to create online games, your best bet is to learn Flash and Flash scripting.

We have videos:

http://www.killersites.com/videoTutorials/Tutorial_Flash/videoTutorial_Flash.jsp

And for scripting (actionscript):

http://www.killeractionscript.com/