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::@[[User:Chatul|Chatul]] What's the problem? You list two items that are both about scripts. What is the distinction you are trying to highlight? Bourne shell was designed to write shell scripts. Perl was designed to write Perl scripts. I think there is a complexity difference between Bourne shell and Perl, but how is that relevant to whether they both are designed and used for writing scripts? ... A scripting language is a language which a script can be written in, right? ... I'm not familiar with [[CLIST]] but the article does not contain the text "script" ... not familiar with [[Rexx]] but it seems to be a scripting language used for writing scripts. [[User:Stevebroshar|Stevebroshar]] ([[User talk:Stevebroshar|talk]]) 13:05, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
:::The problem is that there is a camp that wants to restrict the term to simple languages, while in the literature the term is not so limited.
:::CLIST is an IBM language that IBM originally developed to script [[time sharing option|TSO]] commands and subcommands. CLIST uses & in roughly the same way that Unix shells use $. The [[OS/360]] version of CLIST was not Turing complete, but IBM greatly extended it in [[MVS|OS/VS2]] Release 3.6.
:::[[VM (operating system)|VM]] includes applications implemented with thousands of lines of REXX code, much larger than what is commonly thought of as a script. Similarly, many Perl programs are far from trivial. In both cases they are considered scripting languages due to their original uses more than technical details. -- [[User:Chatul|Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul]] ([[User talk:Chatul|talk]]) 15:56, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
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