From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-02-14T23:28:18-06:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01369] Re: Scripting versus programming

"Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:

> For those of us who (to varying degrees) regard Ruby as in the same league
> as Scheme and Smalltalk, except better (indeed better enough to bother
> learning), calling Ruby a scripting language is somewhat-to-very misleading
> (in effect, not in intent), despite whatever the strict definition of
> scripting is. How many of you hear Scheme and Smalltalk described as
> scripting languages? How many of you would normally describe them that way?

Andy and I certainly agree. In the book we're working hard not to use
the word 'script' at all!


Dave