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Is BASH or Batch scripting really a programming language? They seem like a shell of a language that don't really offer a programmer much of a challenge. haha, batch scripting is just funny as hell and a bit ridiculous. At least BASH or Shell scripting gives the ability to do some complex ****.

Still, are these scripting languages even programming language or should we just refer to them as "scripting"?

[WingedPanther]

I believe Bash is turing complete. I don't know if Batch is or not.

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Wtf is turing complete?

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wtf is a turing machine and why does that matter for a language?

[WingedPanther]

If a language is Turing complete, it has all the computational power that can be achieved (ignoring time/memory limits).

[asafe]

Althought the absent of floating point number, if you learn well the language and see things like The GTK-server - Interpreted GUI programming ,there's a lot you can do with Bash.

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Looks pretty cool. The General Consensus: Bash is a programming language but not batch. Nice.

[hetra]

I started programming doing batch...Small loop files and other calculators...I take it as a language...

title Batch Program
@echo off
echo See? I'm programming...
pause
@echo on
cls
exit

[dargueta]

That's heavily reliant on external programs to do anything, though. Bash is less so.