Scripting language




<language> (Or "glue language") A loose term for any language that is weakly typed or untyped and has little or no provision for complex data structures.

A program in a scripting language (a "script") is often interpreted (but see Ousterhout's dichotomy).

Scripts typically interact either with other programs (often as glue) or with a set of functions provided by the interpreter, as with the file system functions provided in a UNIX shell and with Tcl's GUI functions.

Prototypical scripting languages are AppleScript, C Shell, MSDOS batch files, and Tcl.



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