Re: [PLUG] take-your-bash-scripting-seriously

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 08:55:46PM -0400, Steve Litt via plug wrote:
> On scripts vs programs. I've always maintained that if you tell a
> computer what to do in the future, you're programming. Whether it's
> 100K lines of C or 2 lines of /bin/sh, if it's non-interactive and more
> than one command, it's programming. If you write a Word macro, it's
> programming.

Wait, does this mean all my Perl one-liners aren't programs?

> I hear people who can work miracles with Perl claim "I'm not a
> programmer!" Nonsense. What, if they converted their script to C all of
> a sudden it would be a program?

I don't hear many people claim that. Of course, these days it's hard
to find people who'll even admit that they're Perl programmers! :)

Walt
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