What is the difference between scripting and programming languages? Scripting languages are often compared with programming languages as though they're opposite sides of the same coin. However, ...

In computer programming, a script is a program or sequence of instructions that another program interprets or carries rather than the computer processor doing it (as with a compiled program).

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...