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Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2009, 10:52:56 PM »
I'm pretty sure I  know exactly where the question came from, it's a vain attempt to try to prove some form of Inadequacy on the part of Dias De Verano by making an unsubstantiated claim that he's wasting his time working with Batch, the sad thing is it actual proves quite the reverse when somebody is willing to go out of their way and  essentially waste their own time trying to substantiate false claims with invented facts to nuture an innate need to at least seem important, but I'm not a psychologist.
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    Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
    « Reply #16 on: March 18, 2009, 06:14:47 AM »
    But think of it this way. Batch is a programming language when you compile it into a EXE.
    If you dont know DOS, you dont know Windows...

    Thats why Bill Gates created the Windows NT Family.

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    Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
    « Reply #17 on: March 18, 2009, 07:08:32 AM »
    But think of it this way. Batch is a programming language when you compile it into a EXE.


    huh?

    you cannot compile batch.

    programs that claim to do so merely wrap saving a batch file to a temporary folder and executing it.
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      Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
      « Reply #18 on: March 18, 2009, 07:22:27 AM »
      But think of it this way. Batch is a programming language when you compile it into a EXE.

      i think you have misunderstood what a programming language is.

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      Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
      « Reply #19 on: March 18, 2009, 07:26:13 AM »
      i think you have misunderstood what a programming language is.

      that too  ;D


      being able to "compile" is merely the difference between an interpreted programming language and a compiled one. If that was the only definition of a programming language then VBScript wouldn't be one, and neither would perl or any number of other programming languages.

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      Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
      « Reply #20 on: March 18, 2009, 07:39:40 AM »
      it's a vain attempt to try to prove some form of Inadequacy on the part of Dias De Verano

       :)

      Thanks for that "vain".


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        Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
        « Reply #21 on: March 18, 2009, 12:01:49 PM »
        well Batch is just a Scripting language like JavaScript, the final file is the same as the source code.
        If you dont know DOS, you dont know Windows...

        Thats why Bill Gates created the Windows NT Family.

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        Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
        « Reply #22 on: March 18, 2009, 12:16:40 PM »
        well Batch is just a Scripting language like JavaScript, the final file is the same as the source code.

        It doesn't make sense to call a batch script "source code", really, I reckon, because there isn't any "object code"...


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          Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
          « Reply #23 on: March 18, 2009, 12:25:01 PM »
          True...but its a Scripting language period, not an actual Programming language.
          If you dont know DOS, you dont know Windows...

          Thats why Bill Gates created the Windows NT Family.

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          Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
          « Reply #24 on: March 18, 2009, 12:39:13 PM »
          True...but its a Scripting language period, not an actual Programming language.

          Why are you trolling like Billrich? That's bollocks, I'm afraid. A scripting language is a kind of programming language. There are many kinds of programming languages, and scripting languages are a sub category. Unless you can show differently? (I don't think you can.)

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          Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
          « Reply #25 on: March 18, 2009, 12:51:29 PM »
          True...but its a Scripting language period, not an actual Programming language.

          lol


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          Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
          « Reply #26 on: March 18, 2009, 01:14:23 PM »
          Some peoples reasoning process seems to run thus:

          1. A programming language is what I decide is a programming language.
          2. Scripting is not programming (because I say so)
          3. Therefore batch scripting is not programming


          However...

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          Scripting languages are programming languages designed to make programming tasks easier.

          -Jeremy Sanders (Cambridge University)

          http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/lecture/computing/notes/out/programming/

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          The Scriptometer tries to measure whether a programming language can be easily used for SOP (Script-Oriented Programming).

          C# scores 9; sh scores 151, VBScript is 86

          http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/scripting-language/

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          The Hecl Programming Language is a high-level, open source scripting language implemented in Java.

          http://www.hecl.org/

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          scripting language

          A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be limited to specific functions used to augment the running of an application or system program. For example, JavaScript is widely used on Web pages for calculations as well as for displaying messages, drop-down menus and other user interface elements. Perl, Tcl and Python are very comprehensive programming languages that are often called scripting languages.

          http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/scripting+language

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          scripting languages definitely have a useful role to fill in most programmer's toolchests

          http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.15/15.09/ScriptingLanguages/index.html








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            Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
            « Reply #27 on: March 18, 2009, 05:16:05 PM »
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            Scripting is not programming (because I say so)

            Have my proof  :D


            But heck...i really dont care whether Batch isn't this or that...lets just appreciate it's usefullness  ;)
            If you dont know DOS, you dont know Windows...

            Thats why Bill Gates created the Windows NT Family.

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            Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
            « Reply #28 on: March 20, 2009, 07:54:39 AM »
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            Have my proof

            So far it hasn't showed up.... ::)
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              Re: How many people use Dos Batch?
              « Reply #29 on: March 20, 2009, 11:17:23 AM »
              i know.

              but Batch is a language by your choice of whether it is or isnt
              If you dont know DOS, you dont know Windows...

              Thats why Bill Gates created the Windows NT Family.