Dhtml Scripts, Javascripts, Html Scripts, Perl Scripts

Scripting languages (commonly called scripting programming languages or script languages) are computer programming languages initially used only for simple, repeated actions. The name comes from a written script such as a screenplay, where dialog is repeated verbatim for every performance. Early script languages were often called batch languages or job control languages. A script is more usually interpreted than compiled, but not always.

Many such languages are quite sophisticated and have been used to write elaborate programs, which are often still called scripts even though they go well beyond automating simple computer tasks. A script language can be found at almost every level of a computer system. Besides being found at the level of the operating system, they appear in computer games, web applications, word processing documents, network software and more. In many ways, the terms high-level programming language and scripting language have become entwined, and there is no clear delineation between the two.