[dusted]

I always thought script-kiddies were people who wrote in scripting languages rather than languages that had to be compiled.

[mindslight]

Interestingly enough, the term also applied to people who downloaded/compiled/ran exploits written in C. The distinction was primarily about the effort put in to understand and learn, as opposed to copying example commands.

[LiveOverflow]

interesting! I never thought about that somebody might interpret it in this way