[thelist] Perl vs PerlScript
David Siedband
technique at oceanicsky.com
Fri Oct 8 04:40:00 CDT 2004
I have a slightly different take on 'Perl script'. Perl is a scripting
language in that it is interpreted at runtime and does not need to be
compiled. So any Perl code is script. Code that actually does
something is a program ;)
Semantics aside, in daily speech, I say script to refer to a program
that is similar in scope to a shell script or something that does a
quick data manipulation. I would refer to a web application in coded
in Perl as a program rather than a script.
--
David
($do || !$do) && undef($try); # Master of Perl, Yoda is. Hmmmm?
On Oct 7, 2004, at 11:45 AM, David Kaufman wrote:
> Actually, i would say (though some may have another notion) that a
> "perl
> script" is the same thing as a "perl program". the only difference in
> my mind is that I tend to associate the term "script" with the file it
> resides in and the "program" as the code in the file.
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