A scripting language can be a general purpose language or a domain-specific language for a particular environment. When embedded in an application, it may be called an extension language.
A scripting language is … 展开

Script is a subjective characterization that generally includes the following attributes.
Interpreted
A script is usually not 展开

Early mainframe computers (in the 1950s) were non-interactive, instead using batch processing. IBM's Job Control Language (JCL) is the archetype of languages used to control batch processing. 展开

• Architecture description language
• Authoring language
• Build automation
• Configuration file
• Interpreter directive, Shebang (Unix) 展开

• AWK, for text-processing, generally available in Unix-like operating systems
• Bash, interpreted language for scripting Unix and Unix-like operating systems
• Groovy, Java-like, object-oriented scripting
• JavaScript 展开

Scripting languages can be categorized into several different types, with a considerable degree of overlap among the types.
Glue languages
Scripting is often contrasted with system programming 展开

• Barron, David William (2001). The World of Scripting Languages. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-99886-9. 展开