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Stephen said in September 5th, 2007 at 11:48 am

There’s an expectation that scripts are limited in size. So, depending on the program, it’s either a script or it isn’t, even for bash.

There’s also this idea that scripts are interpreted, and programs are compiled. Perl and Java are compiled to byte code, which is then interpreted. But Perl doesn’t generally save the compiled code to disk.

There is no hard limit to the size of a script. So, there’s no real difference between a program, a utility, a script or an application.