I'm thinking "prototyping" might be a good replacement?
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Hmm, I feel like my objective may not have been clear. Sorry about that. I'm trying to put into words the positive qualities often associated with "scripting languages" without actually using that term.
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I've never known what it's supposed to convey unless we're talking about langs embedded in a host app like JS or Lua
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except that a java dev early in my career when I was a frontend dev told me JS isn't a programming language, it's a *scripting* language
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Just remove the extra adjective. “Ruby is an excellent language” stronger point, no terms with potentially negative connotations.
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Heh, so I'm trying to enumerate the quality itself to apply to other languages too. What is the quality of *scripting" and is there a different word we could use in it's stead?
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Given that Ruby unapologeticly describes itself as a shell scripting language, I’d find it appropriate? It’s main implementation is still focused on this use case, including not allowing patches that would make startup time slower.
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Oh, I was taking Ruby mostly as an example here. I'm thinking of how to describe other languages that way too.
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I've heard languages like python described as "dynamic" languages, as they can be modified on the fly at runtime
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yeah i use this term pretty frequently though i sometimes wonder if folks have any idea what i mean, so i'll usually list ruby, javascript, python, so at that point the adjective might not be doing any lifting, heh
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