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What is the CS definition for "scripting language"?

• pjmlp 13y ago
  They usually share a set of features in terms of typing, extensibility, ability to be used more as glue language than real applications, interactivity A well known paper that discusses those capabilities is the John Ousterhout's paper for the 1998 IEEE COMPUTER, "Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century". http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/scripting.pdf http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/scripting.pdf
  • judk 13y ago
    Nice backpedal from "definitions".
    • pjmlp 13y ago
      It is a paper for a well regarded Computer Science institution, not the opinion of the guy on the corner. Do you want some kind of ISO/ANSI standard definition?
      • judk 13y ago
        I want you read the paper and understand how it talks about various language characteristics that a given language can embody to varying degree.