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Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

From ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups comp.unix.shell, comp.unix.programmer, comp.lang.misc
Subject Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date 2024-03-29 20:07 +0000
Organization Stefan Ram
Message-ID <programming-20240329210532@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> (permalink)
References <uu54la$3su5b$6@dont-email.me> <87edbtz43p.fsf@tudado.org>

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Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:
>A scripting language is a programming language made for a hypothetical
>machine, not too different from a programming language made for a real
>machine, one made of hardware.

  C is clearly a programming language, yet its specification
  says, "The semantic descriptions in this document describe
  the behavior of an abstract machine". And you cannot buy
  this abstract C machine as a piece of hardware anywhere!

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