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, MSDOS batch
        files, and Tcl.
     
        (2001-03-06)