Scripts and Scripting language
Script and Scripting Language What is a Script? A script is a program or sequence of instructions that is interpreted or carried out by another program rather than by the computer processor. Scripting is making another program to run according to the instructions provided on the script. Some good examples for scripting languages are JavaScript, PHP, Python, VBScript . Programming language vs Scripting language Scripting languages are used to create such scripts. Scripting languages do not require the compilation step and are rather interpreted. This helps to distinguish a scripting language from a programming language (which is not a scripting language). eg:java program needs to be compiled before running where as scripting languages like java script and PHP need not be compiled (they are interpreted) Java script Java script is a scripting language. It is used to script web pages on the client side. Hence this is also considered as a client side language