in reply to Script or program?

How do you differentiate a script from a program? Is it the difference between an explicit compile step (e.g., C) and an implcit compile (e.g., Perl)?

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Re: Re: Script or program?
by diotalevi (Canon) on Jan 11, 2004 at 05:23 UTC
    Perl doesn't compile implicitly - its very explicit about it. It just goes and keeps switching from compile to execute back and forth. Saying perl -e 'use strict; use warnings' flip-flops some half a dozen times just on its own.
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