English Vocabulary Lesson

Computer scientists talk about scripting, where computer scientists and film afficionados both are responsible for producing, reviewing and handling scripts. A film maker is like a programmer. I wonder what else we can do with a script?

• conscription - involuntary labor demanded by some established authority.
• orders - something a conscript or conscripted person would receive from the authorities.
• transcription - something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation.
• prescription - instruction or direction delivered before, as authoritative rules, codes, or orders.
• proscribe - to prohibit, condemn, forbid, command against.

Most cultures proscribe stealing. Some people equate piracy with theft. Some laws and practices place a value on things with no unique identity as an object. Calculus is required to quantify value in such a situation and logically explain this phenomenon.