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Old 02-12-2007   #4 (permalink)
Brandon Shell


 
 

Re: Are we 'programmers' or 'scripters'?

To Compile or not to compile.

If you Compile (dll,exe,snapin)= Programming
If you do not Compile (.ps1,.vbs,.cmd...) = Scripting

IMO.

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"Marco Shaw" <marcoDOTshaw_@_gmailDOTcom> wrote in message
news:O81tBAtTHHA.4756@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Was looking through something recently, and it refered to "PowerShell
> programming" as doing 'regular stuff' with PowerShell like writing .ps1
> *scripts*... Now, I would associate programming with one writing
> extensions to PSH using something like C# or VB.NET. As for someone just
> doing 'plain old script', I'd think we'd still call them scripters?
>
> Marco
> RedHat Certified *Engineer*
> ;-)
>


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