> What makes some language a scripting language? A surprisingly difficult question that I've wrestled with a lot (I did a PhD in "compilers and scripting langu

> What makes some language a scripting language? A surprisingly difficult question that I've wrestled with a lot (I did a PhD in "compilers and scripting languages" and people can be quite picky about semantics!). Here's how I think about it: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1281922/104021 http://stackoverflow.com/a/1281922/104021