My definition of scripting is slightly different. Scripting, as I learned, is being able control a host program in not-so-trivial ways with an embedded program

My definition of scripting is slightly different. Scripting, as I learned, is being able control a host program in not-so-trivial ways with an embedded programming language, where the host isn't really dedicated to running programs. Consider Lua embedded in World of Warcraft, JavaScript embedded in the browser or even mod_PHP for Apache. It's all still programming though.