I was reading the material about the groovy language and spotted the word scripting language.At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language, this is the statement:
A scripting language or script language is a programming language that supports the writing of scripts, programs written for a software environment that automate the execution of tasks which could alternatively be executed one by one by a human operator.
If I go by this statement then ever language like Java, C or JavaScript is a scripting language. Is Java also classified as scripting language?
It further says:
Scripts can be written and executed on the fly, without explicit compile and link steps; they are typically created or modified by the person executing them.[1] A scripting language is usually interpreted from source code or bytecode.[2] By contrast, the software environment the scripts are written for is typically written in a compiled language and distributed in machine code form; the user may not have access to its source code, let alone be able to modify it.
On one side it is saying the scripts are written for is typically written in a compiled language and distributed in machine code form on the other hand it is saying Scripts can be written without explicit compile.
Could any explain in what actually scripting language and which languages fulfil this criteria?
