<p>Haha, I don't want to major in CS, that's a fact.</p>
<p>Tuvalu sold it for more than a few million, if I remember correctly. The government received enough money to add some major utility additions throughout the country.</p>
<p>Edit: it was 50 million <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu</a></p>
<p>and Tuvalu received enough money to be able to join the UN <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv</a></p>
<p>ahh I looked it up, it was $50 million! And when your country has 10,000 people in it, $50 million goes a long long way =)</p>
<p>and xinerz, C++ IS NOT A SCRIPTING LANGUAGE!!!!</p>
<p>edit: whoops talk about redundancy</p>
<p>franken, i KNOW NO DIFFERENCE btw scripting languages and whatever else you call C++!! edumacate me! </p>
<p>what's tuvalu?</p>
<p>ahh scripting languages are interpreted "on the fly", they're used for rapid development or accomplishing common tasks. =)</p>
<p>Tuvalu is this small country that's only way of living is the income form its .tv domain
<a href="http://www.answers.com/tuvalu%5B/url%5D">http://www.answers.com/tuvalu</a></p>
<p>Its awesome how far away from the topic of RSI we've moved!</p>
<p>Tuvalu = the country that has the rights to the .tv domain (and a 900 area code apparantly). xinerz, every country has its own country code domain abbreviation ("country code top-level domain" is the actual name), canada = .ca, france = .fr, et cetera. Tuvalu has .tv. During the dot-com boom, some company swooped in and bought the rights for some years to license .tv addresses (so they could sell domains).</p>
<p>edit: xinerz, check the wikipedia link above too ;)</p>
<p>TAIWAN!!! (first word i saw on that wikipedia link)</p>
<p>ahhh so we're .us....</p>
<p>technically yeah, but no one uses .us really except for state gov stuff.</p>
<p>Frankenchris, your completely incorrect regarding the implementation difference of a compiler versus interpreter being the distinguishing factor of a scripting versus general purpose languages on several levels!</p>
<p>First, any modern interpreter first compiles the source code into a byte code which can be efficiently interpreted by a virtual machine (Java fits this characterization if this byte code is distributable). Only simplistic interpreters such as the ones I wrote late last summer directly execute the abstract syntax tree of a source program.</p>
<p>ANY programming language can be either interpreted or compiled, witness interpreters for C, the compiler for PHP, and the dynamic psyco compiler for Python.</p>
<p>The distinction between a scripting language and a general purpose language is somewhat more complicated. A simple naive definition of the difference would be any turing complete language qualifies as general purpose and a language which only allows a constant number of iterations in a loop or is a typed lambda calculus variant which doesn't have a built in recursion construct (being not turing complete as all program must terminate). The generally accepted definition is that a language that is used to write extensions to applications such as emacs or is meant to automate tasks in a specific domain (such as Make for compiling) is definitely a scripting language, languages which are used as such as well as for general purpose software construction (such as python, scheme and many others), and then there are others which are indubitably generally purpose such as C/C++, Java, and more modern languages (which have the ease of use found in what are termed scripting languages as well as a very cool theoretical basis) such as Haskell and Ml</p>
<p>I am so lost...except about the .com stuff. .jp is for Japan...
lol google stalking. not my cup of tea either</p>
<p>Interesting post, schemer. You're definition for a scripting language is certainly legitimate. </p>
<p>Can't we just call these general purpose languages programming languages? I thought that was the proper way to differentiate between a scripting language and a (supposedly) programming language. .</p>
<p>wow. i'm confused.</p>
<p>i'm just gonna say that programming languages are C++, C, java, visual, so on and scripting languages are the ones that i've never heard of. =)</p>
<p>heh, I'm with xinerz on this one. </p>
<p>hm.. are any of y'all giving your teachers anything to thank them for writing your recs and such?</p>
<p>hey guys i applied to rsi too =D
i dont know anything about comp sci though just beginners java and i forgot most of that lol
im more of a science guy</p>
<p>i know java and c and c++ but i kinda taught myself c/c++ so i'm sure i don't know everything. </p>
<p>fun stuff. but only when your code compiles right. i'm in a robotics comptn right now where we had to do the first 15 seconds of the comptn as autonomous (US FIRST if anyone's heard of it) and i swear, that was the most frustrating thing ever because it was my first year as a programmer and i was the only one doing it. but it worked in the end. our comptn's March 2-6</p>
<p>I wasn't interested in participating in my school's robotics team because the programming is simply filling in a while loop in C, and poorly written C at that</p>
<p>schemer! chill man!
for what scripting languages usally are, I believe what I stated is correct...
And for most of the people reading thing, it's probably more understandable too ;-)</p>
<p>However, thank you that nevertheless accurate assessment..=P</p>
<p>I should have a added a "are usually" to what I said..</p>
<p>edit: Isn't it great how this thread has completely diverged from the topic! It's almost formed its own little community =)</p>
<p>a community of smart people that speak in esoteric computer science jargon!</p>
<p>naw we're all good. i love the peeps on this thread :)</p>
<p>i think i'm gonna write thank you notes IF i get in (iow, i'm not writing any ) nah, i've done alot for these techers, and plus, there's always that end of the year teacher gifting week and teacher appreciation week therefore..... etc etc. eventually i'll be writing some thank you notes, but just not now</p>
<p>I'm going to bake chocolate cupcakes and cover then with ganache even if I don't get in, which is likely. But if I do get in, maybe I'll put extra ganache!
ya, I think everyone can stop trying to sound smart... we believe you. ;)</p>