<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:21 PM, William D. Neumann wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) 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; ">Maybe "Interpreted Language" instead of scripting language.</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; ">So where does that leave languages like Lisp or ML which can be interpreted or compiled (to either bytecode or native code)?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Hell, there are even interpreters for C and C++...</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; ">Would that include languages where programs are *only* run via interpreter?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>What about if they are converted to bytecode first?</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; ">William D. Neumann</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>We're not creating a dictionary here.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The whole point of this tagging system is to allow people to easily find things.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It doesn't matter if Applescript is really compiled code or not.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">It only matters that people would <I>never</I> look for Applescript by going to the Compiled Languages section. Never.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>Also, if we tag things properly we'll take away a vital pastime of programmers everywhere… arguing about the finer details of programming language classification.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm going to go ahead and tag anything that runs on unix "star_trek parents_basement" and anything that runs on windows as "empty_suit useless_meetings". That would be entertaining to watch discover ;)</DIV><DIV>Even better than changing the icon.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>thomas Aylott — <B>subtleGradient </B>— CrazyEgg — sixteenColors</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>