GS1 VS GS2 (Split from Domination thread)

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by jake13jake

Kai, the reason I don't count gscript as a credible programming language is because I don't give it a great deal of credibility.

So what is your definition of 'scripting language'?

[protagonist]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

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.

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by protagonist

Truthfully, Gscript is not an independant protocol

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

can't really be considered a scripting language so much as a branch of one (C/C++ I guess

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

It's iffy; kind of like calling VB a real language.

There is nothing "iffy" about that designation.

[protagonist]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

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

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

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

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

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

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

There is nothing "iffy" about that designation.

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.

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by protagonist

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

Even still, I think "protocol" is misused.

Dude, I consider languages to be things that you actually have to understand to pick up

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

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

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

[protagonist]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

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

So what is the end goal of a scripting language?

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by protagonist

So what is the end goal of a scripting language?

To specify behaviour.

[jake13jake]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

So what is your definition of 'scripting language'?

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!

[protagonist]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

To specify behaviour.

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

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by protagonist

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

It's not part of the definition.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by jake13jake

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!

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