Scripting Languages
Scripting in Drama: programming the sequence of actor’s actions and utterances. A play is represented by a script.
Scripting in software systems: programming a sequence of operations to be performed by a software system. Scripting operations are typically higher-level operations than machine instructions, typically application-oriented.
Examples: Gnu Emacs is scripted with elisp. The GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) is scripted with a dialect of Scheme.
Shell-level scripting language: Glue that ties together programs written in other languages.