Re: Scripting vs. Programming language vs. 4GL?

Lutz Prechelt <prechelt@ira.uka.de> wrote:


>And the borderlines are also not sharp:
>Think of Common Lisp which nobody would call a scripting languages,
>although it is at most partially compiled.


Forgive me if a flame a bit, but Lisp in general, and Common Lisp and
particular almost invariably have a compiler and the compiler is used
by most programmers. Lisp has had compilers longer than C has been a
language. It is true that Lisp implementations usually do have an
interpreter, and this interpreter is also used by most programmers for
some purposes. However, Lisp progams are "at most" entirely compiled,
and are in fact usually entirely compiled.


    Rob
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