A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...
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We like to do a lot with a little. That’s the attraction of scripting: it manages big, complicated computing systems — CORBA, for example — with simple, low-cost means. We affectionately call CORBA ...