Steve Litt schrob:
> I've heard the term "script" used many different ways. [...]
> although these days with Just In Time compilation,
> "interpreted language" is a fuzzy term. On a personal level, I view
> this as a distinction lacking a difference: One can perform almost any
> task (perhaps very badly) from either bash or C. I personally call all
> of them "programs".
My definition is:
If I can read the output of "cat `which foo`", then foo is a script,
else it's a binary program.
And the meaningful-to-me difference is that I can simply rsync a script
to any other machine. For binaries, that won't be useful unless the
machines involved share their architecture (and libc).
Hence I have a few C scripts. They start with #!/usr/bin/tcc -run
cheers,
Jan
Received on Tue May 19 2026 - 19:58:51 CEST