Language and scripting language

Explain the difference between language and scripting language?

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jbode

  • Sep 12th, 2012
 

"Scripting" language *usually* implies a language thats interpreted as opposed to compiled, with lots of high-level operations for file manipulation, pattern matching, job management, etc. and geared for smaller, housekeeping tasks instead of large, monolithic applications. The distinction is largely artificial, though.

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...uzma...

  • Oct 4th, 2012
 

The origin of the term was similar to its meaning in "a movie script tells actors what to do": a scripting language controlled the operation of a normally-interactive program, giving it a sequence of work to do all in one batch. For instance, one could put a series of editing commands in a file, and tell an editor to run that "script" as if those commands had been typed interactively.

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