Reading the linked post, it strikes me that much of the time he talks about "Script" as if it's a coherent and tangible thing. He describes the properties of "Script" in terms that are too precise and specific. For example, he says "the script engines are bytecode-interpreted languages." Obviously this is not true of every langauge that could ever be called a "scripting language."

At first I thought he was simply overgeneralizing, but as I read I began to think perhaps he's talking about a very specific platform. I think he's talking about some MS "Script" subsystem. Maybe this is obvious to some people who have some idea of the context of this post, but for me it was a realization I came to slowly.

If this is indeed the case, then many (if not most) of the points he brings up are simply not useful for any other platform, much less scripting languages in general. This leads me to wonder what the point was of posting this link to a Perl site, except perhaps to spawn a similar discussion. If that was the intention, it's not particularly clear to me.

In reply to Re: On Scripting versus Compiled solutions by revdiablo
in thread On Scripting versus Compiled solutions by clintp

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