[SVN] Tagging Bundles

[Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient)]

On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:18 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> Most of the "scripting language" advocates are now trying to escape  
> that name, because it's such a poor fit.  The term "dynamic  
> language" is often preferred by those same people.  At RubyConf  
> 2006, Matz recommended we call Ruby an "agile language" in his  
> keynote address.

On Feb 21, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) wrote:
>> Maybe "Interpreted Language" instead of scripting language.
>
> The whole point of this tagging system is to allow people to easily  
> find things.

On Feb 21, 2007, at 3:18 PM, William D. Neumann wrote:
> Sure.  But the point is that "interpreted languages" is arguably  
> less correct than "scripting languages", yet no more likely to  
> increase findability of the contents than scripting language.  If  
> you aren't improving usability, then why decrease correctness?

On Feb 21, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> Yes I agree that "scripting language" is a lot more closer to where  
> people would expect to find Ruby, Shell, Applescript etc.

Personally, I vote for "Scripting languages"
That's where I would expect to find Ruby, Perl, Applescript, etc...

 From what I can tell, that seems less inaccurate than "Interpreted"  
and much more likely to be findable.

thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
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