[Bug 292301] loader(8) intro: Not optimal choice of words

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292301

--- Comment #2 from Ulrich Eduard <ulrichulrich_se@yahoo.com> ---
Hi Alexander,

Many thanks for taking the time to respond in such an elaborate manner.

The point I was trying to make is that "scripts written in ... interpreters"
is, technically speaking, nonsensical, because a script can only be written in
a language not "in an interpreter" because an interpreter is a program. The
script is later on interpreted by an interpreter. I also think that using the
word "scripts" implies that there will be an interpreter that understands the
script. In this sense, the simple loader can be categorised as an
interpreter—even though it doesn’t support control structures, it still reads a
script and reacts to its contents.

That said, and taking into account your valuable points, I would like to
suggest the following improvement:

    It executes boot scripts written in one of several scripting languages,
depending on which interpreter is called.

One important condition is implied by this wording: there is only one
interpreter active for the whole process, i.e. mixing different scripting
language is not possible.

An even simpler improvement could be:

    It executes boot scripts written for one of several interpreters.


I’m not complaining about the documentation in general—I only want to iron out
parts that could easily be misunderstood.

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