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by wasd884 2842 days ago
I might be being a bit "old hat", but I thought a programming language was one that you had to to compile (such as C) whereas a scripting language was one that was interperated (such as Python). I could be wrong but there appears to be some similar lines of thought on this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17253545/scripting-langu...