scripting language

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scripting language - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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, MS-DOS
     batch files and Tcl.
  
     (2001-03-06)