M
Mothra
Semantic question here: what's the difference between a script and a
program? At what stage can you call your Perl script a program for
example? And at what stage can you call yourself a Perl programmer?
I encounter some snobbery from time to time with programmers telling me
that what I'm doing is "just scripting", whereas the stuff they write
(in Java, ColdFusion, C++ etc) is "real programming".
Well yes, I'm a lowly Sys Admin, and I've only been using Perl for about
3 years, but I've written some big and complex "scripts" in Perl to
solve Sys Admin-type problems.
So is there a real difference, or is it just semantic snobbery?
program? At what stage can you call your Perl script a program for
example? And at what stage can you call yourself a Perl programmer?
I encounter some snobbery from time to time with programmers telling me
that what I'm doing is "just scripting", whereas the stuff they write
(in Java, ColdFusion, C++ etc) is "real programming".
Well yes, I'm a lowly Sys Admin, and I've only been using Perl for about
3 years, but I've written some big and complex "scripts" in Perl to
solve Sys Admin-type problems.
So is there a real difference, or is it just semantic snobbery?