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I call everything a script. Makes the Java devs real mad. Makes the PM's super confused.
A million-line project spread over a hundred files
It's a script!
sqlite is technically just one C source file, so that's definitely a script.
The compiled binary being another script.
Just in a different language.
Being one source file is the definition of a script?
The definition of a script is something the computer executes (if it's a computer script, of course). Everything else people shove into it is extraneous.
Wait, so the
bashscript that I broke down into multiple files because I was unable to create and use functions properly, could not be considered a script?It's now just a bash
GNU Autotools: yes.
They hate to hear it.
In a sense it is, before it gets compiled. And yes I'm using the term loosely, please don't @ me people