Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!arizona!dave From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Script vs. program (Was: 20 byte "Hello World" program.) Message-ID: <971@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 27 Feb 91 21:02:41 GMT References: <45932@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 19 In article mwm@pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >I half agree. The 20-byte script is a program. A script that sets the >shell prompt to "Hello world" is a program with a different end. >Setting the prompt isn't a program - no executable, and it prints the >string everytime a program is through being invoked, not on demand. Nahh - all you have to do is say that the request to execute "hello world" is to press the return button... Personally, I veiw the thread that lead up to this as a proof that echo "hello world" is *not* a program - by the technique of reduction to absurdity. (There's a fancy latin name for it, but I won't inflict the net with how I think I remember it's spelled ;-) -- Dave Schaumann dave@cs.arizona.edu 'Dog Gang'! Where do they get off calling us the 'Dog Gang'? I'm beginning to think the party's over. I'm beginning to think maybe we don't need a dog. Or maybe we need a *new* dog. Or maybe we need a *cat*! - Amazing Stories