Scripting...

I wish I was a guru at telling you my revelations. But my revelations are not complete in any sense. They just tell that "something is called 'that'". One experience was when I had been working with C++ graphics. I made a small program to plot equations. It was more of a plotting mechanism rather than an equation plotter. Because you cannot plot for any equation you wanted; you had to edit the code such that it plotted the equation you wanted.

But this thought itself later presented a new problem. How do you make your program plot an equation of your choice? I am talking about a simple C++ program doing the above mentioned task. The program is no way simple; atleast I believe so at present because I don't know what it takes. But it was later that I had understood that such a technology was available; it exists. I learnt it when I was learning Visual Basic. It is called scripting. The ordinary C++ language (i.e. my compiler version - turbo c++ v3.0) has no support for scripting, I guess. If you want to design a scripting application you have to design it from scratch (which is what I don't know).

Visual Basic had a scripting object. This object allows for the user to type in vb code segments at run time, and it executes that segment. Now where would you use scripting? Hmm, even I don't know that much, but you can use it in cases such as the one I was thinking about...plotting graphs of user input equations. Such applications would find use in the research industry.

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