A scripting language can be a general purpose language or a domain-specific language for a particular environment. … See more

• AWK, a text-processing language available in most Unix-like operating systems, which has been ported to other operating systems.
• Bash, an interpreted scripting language for use on Unix, GNU and other … See more

Some game systems have custom language scripting extensions, notably the Second Life virtual world (using Linden Scripting Language) and the Trainz franchise of Railroad simulators (using TrainzScrip… See more

Typical scripting languages are intended to be very fast to learn and write in, either as short source code files or interactively in a read–eval–print loop (REPL, language shell). This generally implies relatively simple … See more

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.
The first int… See more

Scripting languages can be categorized into several different types, with a considerable degree of overlap among the types.
Scripting is often contrasted with system programming, as in Ousterhout's dichotomy or "… See more

• Architecture description language
• Authoring language
• Build automation
• Configuration file… See more