scripting and progrming

[MA07]

Hello,

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this (if not please feel free to delete it),
What is the difference between scripting and programming?

thank you

[Marcus Ottosson]

It might not be the best place to ask, but there's not harm in asking. :)

It's a question of many answers that is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. My take on it is that scripting is automating some software, such as Maya, whereas programming is writing the software itself. The subtlety to me is that automating some software is what you could say that you are doing to the compiler software with a language such as C, which would make that scripting as well under that metric. And in fact there are "scripting" implementations of languages that you would typically not associate with scripting. Python then is used to both automate and write software, which would make it both a scripting and programming language.

It's a question for the philosophers, but hope it helps!

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[Justin Israel]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 4:14 AM Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com> wrote:

It might not be the best place to ask, but there's not harm in asking. :)

It's a question of many answers that is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. My take on it is that scripting is automating some software, such as Maya, whereas programming is writing the software itself. The subtlety to me is that automating some software is what you could say that you are doing to the compiler software with a language such as C, which would make that scripting as well under that metric. And in fact there are "scripting" implementations of languages that you would typically not associate with scripting. Python then is used to both automate and write software, which would make it both a scripting and programming language.

I think this is a pretty good description. I would add that in my view, scripting tends to refer to solving a specific problem through an "executable" high level solution; something you run to perform actions. It makes me think of dynamic languages that can interpret the code instead of requiring a build process. To me, scripting doesn't imply the same level of architecture and reusability as "programming". One would probably not use the term "scripting" when writing an API library that can be used by others to build solutions. 

It's a question for the philosophers, but hope it helps!

On 14 August 2017 at 15:38, MA07 <amirahsya...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this (if not please feel free to delete it),
What is the difference between scripting and programming?

thank you

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[Andres Weber]

The thing that was always a grey area in my head is when you're coding your own C++ Maya deformer or something like that.  In my mind that's programming since it is a compiled/built process that ends up in a plugin file...but that's always been the one I have a hard time discerning.  In my mind scripting always has to execute within an environment that it had not built but something that augments that software/environment.

In either case, great question!

On Monday, August 14, 2017 at 3:39:27 PM UTC-4, Justin Israel wrote:

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017, 4:14 AM Marcus Ottosson <konstr...@gmail.com> wrote:

It might not be the best place to ask, but there's not harm in asking. :)

It's a question of many answers that is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. My take on it is that scripting is automating some software, such as Maya, whereas programming is writing the software itself. The subtlety to me is that automating some software is what you could say that you are doing to the compiler software with a language such as C, which would make that scripting as well under that metric. And in fact there are "scripting" implementations of languages that you would typically not associate with scripting. Python then is used to both automate and write software, which would make it both a scripting and programming language.

I think this is a pretty good description. I would add that in my view, scripting tends to refer to solving a specific problem through an "executable" high level solution; something you run to perform actions. It makes me think of dynamic languages that can interpret the code instead of requiring a build process. To me, scripting doesn't imply the same level of architecture and reusability as "programming". One would probably not use the term "scripting" when writing an API library that can be used by others to build solutions. 

It's a question for the philosophers, but hope it helps!

On 14 August 2017 at 15:38, MA07 <amirahsya...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this (if not please feel free to delete it),
What is the difference between scripting and programming?

thank you

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[Alok Gandhi]

To me, the biggest difference between scripting and programming is this -

Scripting - Automate the execution of a task that can be ALTERNATIVELY EXECUTED ONE-BY-ONE A HUMAN OPERATOR (from Wikipedia)

Programming - Everything else you do to send instructions to a computer (including scripting).