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.
(2001-03-06)
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