<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:18 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Feb 21, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I know 3.a versus 3.b will give rise to debate, and for the more esoteric languages, there probably is no preconceived notion of what the language is (like e.g. both Python and AppleScript are considered scripting languages, despite both of them generally being compiled).</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Most of the "scripting language" advocates are now trying to escape that name, because it's such a poor fit.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The term "dynamic language" is often preferred by those same people.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>At RubyConf 2006, Matz recommended we call Ruby an "agile language" in his keynote address.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">James Edward Gray II</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>But that's part of the problem.</DIV><DIV>In the bundles themselves we describe what the language is, but when doing a UI for searching for something, that's how the majority of people would expect to find those languages.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Maybe <B>Compiled Languages</B> and <B>Interpreted Languages</B> instead?</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>thomas Aylott — <B>subtleGradient </B>— CrazyEgg — sixteenColors</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>