A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

Assemblers, Compilers and Interpreters For each CPU hardware platform, there is a low-level assembly language that generates machine language one for one. High-level languages (what most ...

The scripting language uses function calls and supports object-oriented elements. It can be used outside of the Web, for example, in PDF documents.