From ab8c884b3464633fc227a465f4b5aab4c7bce27a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avdi Grimm Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:03:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Refer to Ruby/Python/JS as "dynamically evaluated" "Dynamically typed" didn't seem like a relevant distinction; there are statically-compiled dynamically-typed languages. Another term that might work here (despite being notoriously vague) is "scripting languages". --- src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md b/src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md index 6c320d27ba654..fc5307a6a12a0 100644 --- a/src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md +++ b/src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ $ ./main # or main.exe on Windows This prints out our `Hello, world!` text to our terminal. -If you come from a dynamically typed language like Ruby, Python, or JavaScript, +If you come from a dynamically evaluated language like Ruby, Python, or JavaScript, you may not be used to these two steps being separate. Rust is an ‘ahead-of-time compiled language’, which means that you can compile a program, give it to someone else, and they don't need to have Rust installed. If you From 810757935e38aeaabfd8359fe157e74c837221df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avdi Grimm Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:23:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Wording for dynamic languages. --- src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md b/src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md index fc5307a6a12a0..58aeebd6eb045 100644 --- a/src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md +++ b/src/doc/trpl/hello-world.md @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ $ ./main # or main.exe on Windows This prints out our `Hello, world!` text to our terminal. -If you come from a dynamically evaluated language like Ruby, Python, or JavaScript, +If you come from a dynamic language like Ruby, Python, or JavaScript, you may not be used to these two steps being separate. Rust is an ‘ahead-of-time compiled language’, which means that you can compile a program, give it to someone else, and they don't need to have Rust installed. If you