scripting language

    (Or "glue language") A loose term for any language
   that is weakly typed or untyped and has little or no
   provision for complex data structures.  A program in a
   scripting language (a "script") is often interpreted (but
   see Ousterhout's dichotomy).

   Scripts typically interact either with other programs (often
   as glue) or with a set of functions provided by the
   interpreter, as with the file system functions provided in a
   UNIX shell and with Tcl's GUI functions.  Prototypical
   scripting languages are AppleScript, C Shell, MS-DOS
   batch files and Tcl.

   (2001-03-06)