Scripting language doesn't imply at all "interpreted". Otherwise you would just say that: interpreted. "Scripting language" denotes a strong tie between a syste

Scripting language doesn't imply at all "interpreted". Otherwise you would just say that: interpreted. "Scripting language" denotes a strong tie between a system and the language used to script it. In other words you will often have to use a given scripting language because it is the interface to the system you want to script. We should really always say: "scripting language of X". "Fortran and Cobol were the scripting languages of early IBM mainframes. C was the scripting language of Unix, and so, later, was Perl. Tcl is the scripting language of Tk. Java and Javascript are intended to be the scripting languages of web browsers." (from Being popular, http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html)