Is Python really a scripting language?

[Donald 'Paddy' McCarthy]

Doug Morse wrote:
> although perhaps not a part of the definition of scripting languages per se,
> one aspect of them is that they are often used to "glue" a wide variety of
> other components together.  perl's initial and continued success is in no
> small part to all the wrappers and interfaces it has to all sorts of other
> software components and applications.  part of python's utility, IMHO, is the
> ease with which it can be used, like perl, to glue together a lot of disparate
> parts.
> 
>>>> But here's my problem,
>>>> most of my coworkers, when they see my apps and learn that they are
>>>> written in Python ask questions like, "Why would you write that in a
>>>> scripting language?"  Whenever I hear a comment like that I can feel
>>>> myself boiling inside.

I'm with Doug on this. Python *is* a scripting language which is a *good*
thing. It's their perceptions of what scripting languages are capable of
that are out-of-date.

- Paddy.