So what is your definition of 'scripting language'?

Truthfully, Gscript is not an independant protocol, and can't really be considered a scripting language so much as a branch of one (C/C++ I guess, since that's what Graal is coded in now and the structure; particularly the GUI functions are very C/C++ish).

Though, Graal could be considered an environment, as PHP servers serve as an environment for PHP. Still, I would almost call Gscript1/2 too user friendly to be an actual language, in the sense that it doesn't have the same range of functions which other languages have. It's iffy; kind of like calling VB a real language.

What a thoroughly meaningless statement. GScript never claimed to be a "protocol".

If you think that C is a scripting language then you clearly don't know how the term is defined.

There is nothing "iffy" about that designation.

I meant to say that Graal isn't a protocal that makes GScript independant. Whoops.

It's a coding language, I guess. Misspoke.

Dude, I consider languages to be things that you actually have to understand to pick up. And by understand, I mean the nitty-gritty, core mechanics of the engine and so-forth. Sure, everything boils down to binary, but that's irrelevant. There are just some reasonable boundaries to draw: you can not write an executable Gscript, and you can not make Gscript perform outside of the Graal engine unless you write a program which uses it as a scripting program. It does not sustain itself outside of its environment.

Even still, I think "protocol" is misused.

Great. But that's not what the word means.

That's part of the definition of a scripting language. Doofus.

So what is the end goal of a scripting language?

To specify behaviour.

Stop trolling Kai, I meant that I don't consider it a credible scripting language and you're just trying to irritate everyone today. hmpph! :spam:

That's ambiguous. Is it widely useful? Shouldn't scripting languages be widely useful?

It's not part of the definition.

He's trolling because you made such an egregious error and he called you on it? That's interesting.