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A good definition of scripting languages

From Avi Bryant:

You extend Java by writing Java, you extend C++ by writing C++, you extend C# by writing C#, but you extend TCL and Perl and Ruby, as often as not, by writing C.

Print | posted on Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:20 AM

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# re: A good definition of scripting languages 4/16/2007 12:31 PM Max

So what?

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# re: A good definition of scripting languages 4/16/2007 12:34 PM Ayende Rahien

So nothing, I read it, thought it was interesting, and posted it.

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# re: A good definition of scripting languages 4/16/2007 1:44 PM Max

Sorry if I sounded aggressive... not enough sleep this night ;) But you are right, this is really a problem of scripting languages. If you wanna have good performing extensions, you need C.

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# Turtles all the way down and the CLR (or JVM) 4/18/2007 8:24 PM josh's blog

Avi makes some comments here
between the differences between scripting languages and &amp;#8220;real&amp;#8221; languages. His main point is that real languages are fast enough to be extended in themselves. Now I think I understand his unlying point - which i...

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# re: A good definition of scripting languages 4/18/2007 8:50 PM Josh Robb

I've commented on this extensively on my new blog.

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# re: A good definition of scripting languages 4/18/2007 9:38 PM Ayende Rahien

The link is:
http://joshrobb.com/blog/2007/04/18/turtles-all-the-way-down-and-the-clr-or-jvm/

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