I might be being a bit "old hat", but I thought a programming language was one that you had to to compile (such as C) whereas a scripting language was one that

I might be being a bit "old hat", but I thought a programming language was one that you had to to compile (such as C) whereas a scripting language was one that was interperated (such as Python). I could be wrong but there appears to be some similar lines of thought on this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17253545/scripting-language-vs-programming-language https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17253545/scripting-langu...