The Wikipedia writes correctly about what constitutes a scripting language [1]. More on the subject appears on the local page called, "Why Scripting".

RLH - Us high falootin' folks call them "dynamic languages". [2]

Article by Larry Wall on scripting http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html

Article by Tcl's creator, John Ousterhout, about scripting [3]

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"The State of the Scripting Universe" [4]

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