Scripting language

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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 (computing)|execution]] of tasks which could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Environments that can be automated through scripting include [[software application]]s, [[web page]]s within a [[web browser]], the [[Shell script|shells]] of [[operating system]]s (OS), and several [[General-purpose programming language|general purpose]] and [[domain-specific language]]s such as those for [[embedded system]]s.

== See also ==
* [[Architecture description language]]
* [[Build automation]]
* [[Domain-specific language]]
* [[Glue code]]
* [[Interpreted language]]
* [[Interpreter directive]]
* [[List of programming languages]]
* [[Macro (computer science)|Macro]] and [[preprocessor]] languages
* [[Ousterhout's dichotomy]]
* [[Programming in the large and programming in the small]]
* [[Shebang (Unix)]]
* [[Shell (computing)]]
* [[System programming]]
* [[Web template#Template languages|Web template languages]]

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