Scripting

[Fact 1]: A , or is a programming language that allows control of one or more software applications.

[Fact 2]: "Scripts" are distinct from the core code of the application, as they are usually written in a different language and are often created or at least modified by the End-user were non-interactive, instead using [[batch processing.

[Fact 3]: IBM's Job Control Language and CSS.A major class of scripting languages has grown out of the automation of job control, which relates to starting and controlling the behavior of system programs.

[Fact 4]: Ousterhout

Use of VBScript in QTP automation

Scripting on the Java platform — JavaWorld

[http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html "Programming is Hard - Let's Go Scripting" by Larry Wall] - Perl.com transcript of his State of the Onion speech.

[Fact 5]: (In this sense, one might think of shells as being descendants of IBM's JCL, or Job Control Language, which was used for exactly this purpose.) Many of these languages' interpreters double as command-line interpreters such as the Unix shell or the MS-DOS COMMAND.COM.

[Fact 6]: Nikolai Bezroukov

[http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ Rob van der Woude's Scripting Pages] — Administrative scripting related information ] — 2003 study

Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century by John K.

[Fact 7]: Techniques involving the combination of XML and JavaScript scripting to improve the user's impression of responsiveness have become significant enough to acquire a name: Macro and preprocessor languages

Ousterhout's dichotomy

Programming in the large and programming in the small

[ suitability of selected languages — from The Scriptometer

A Slightly Skeptical View on Scripting Languages by Dr.

[Fact 8]: Others, such as AppleScript offer the use of English-like commands to build scripts.