What are the differences of Programming and Scripting?

Singachea · fourth grade Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 258

Hi experts,

I'm lost about the terms programming and scripting.

Normally, I see they use the term programming with C, C++, C#, Java, ...
and scripting with Perl, Python, ...

Can anyone explain them?

guitarman · fourth grade Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 728

Singachea · fourth grade Joined: 19 Nov 2005 Posts: 258

I don't know, so I'm lost

guitarman · fourth grade Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 728

Compiled languages are better in the performance perspective than the scripting langauge.

When using a compiled language, usually the program is compiled the first time before it runs and hence it's faster to run such program. Example would be .NET and Java.

Scripting language or intepreted language will be runned everytime users request the program to run. PHP is one of the scripting language.

It depends on your flavour as to which one to choose. But for me, depending on the application i'm writing, the choice is different.

ad-vuth · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:03 am Post subject:

From what i have noticed, I think scripting language is lighter and less complicated than programming language is. As i know, scripting language does not necessarily need compiler to translate the source code but it does need interpreter such as your IE whose role, for instance, is to interpreter java script's source code to the machine for executing.

guitarman · fourth grade Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 728