Have you ever considered that you are a *little* too touchy on this subject? What does it really matter what you call it? By your account you are trying to make the word "Program" stretch as just as far as the people that call everything a "script".

Yes, I understand that I've gone from one extreme to the other on this subject. But to me, the connotation of a "Perl script" is something you can whip up in a few minutes, and it's difficult to hear about a complex program I've worked hard on for a long time being referred to in that way.

In a sense, all Perl programs are Perl scripts, and vice versa. I just prefer to say "program" because a "programming language" is generally taken more seriously than a "scripting language". That's just me.

-- Mike

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Hm, I generally refer to a single .pl file as a perl "script", dozens (or hundreds) of these "scripts" together comprise an "application" or a "program". Of course you also have lots of packages and classes in there, but I've found that if I need to make these distinctions, I'm generally talking to a perl developer anyway, and all these trivialities are irrelevant by default. Just seems intuitive, I suppose I'm just used to it.

Generally I don't care, the only thing that does irk me is saying that, for example, ASP somehow supercedes perl (or Perl); A little like saying that "UNIX was the operating system people used before Microsoft invented the GUI" :)