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:::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)
::::Um. what term is that some camp wants to restrict? "script" or "scripting language" or both?
::::I assume by camp you mean WP editors? Or do you mean citable sources?
::::You miss my point about CLIST. My point is: why do you mention CLIST when its article does not say its a scripting language or mention 'script'? ... I guess you are saying that it is in fact a scripting language. So, I'd say its article should say that. But, we're diverging from the central idea here.
::::As for REXX I don't get the point you're driving at. And it's not important to my point.
::::What are the problems you are talking about. I would like to know and it would be good to add to an article about script / scripting language.
::::But all this misses my point. My point is that ''script'' is a much more central concept than ''scripting language''. All the things are talking about are surely part of the nexus that is script, scripting and scripting language. My point is that the article should be named by the most central term; not the least central term.
::::You seem to think that since there is controversy about what constitutes a scripting language that the article cannot be called 'script'. I do not see how the former implies the latter.
::::IMO, the article is lacking a description of this controversy, ''and'' it should be titled 'script'. [[User:Stevebroshar|Stevebroshar]] ([[User talk:Stevebroshar|talk]]) 15:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
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