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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.

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.

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. A scripting language is usually interpreted from source code or bytecode. 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.

For more information see Wikipedia Entry about Scripting language

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Programming and scripting languages

What is the difference between a programming language and a scripting language? Why HTML is neither a programming language nor a scripting language? If the difference is only without compilation? Then what is the advantages of having scripting…
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Need guidance in writing a unix script to compare the files in source and target directories

i want to write a unix script where: source dir:/test1/jobs/def1,def2,def3....so on target dir:/test2/jobs/def1,def2,def3....so on scenario1: i want to compare that jobs folder in source and target directory both has exactly same no of files like…
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Cannot explicitly convert string to float

I am using the following code to format currency in my unity game. But there is some error messages saying "Cannot explicitly convert string to float" public float FormatAmount(float amount) { if (amount <= 999) { return…
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Python- How to separate input entries separated by delimiters and use them separately later in the code i

I receive an input like this x= (a:b) I need to separate a and b and use them individually in the code a = abc1*xyz1 b = abc2*xyz2 How can I separate two or more entities which are delimited by ":" and use them separately later in the code?
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Scripting-like behaviour in a non-scripting language

I was playing around the ternary operator in Java when suddenly this question came to my mind. In PHP we can use the ternary operator for the decision and then put some command (or tags) in the main document like this (an example from the PHP…
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