Scripting Versus Programming Languages
There's a fine line between scripting and programming languages. For example, Smalltalk is an extremely dynamic interpreted language, but it's not for scripting. A true scripting language, unlike Smalltalk, must employ late-bound polymorphism and dynamic typing.
Many UNIX programmers program in C and C++ and glue modules together with higher-level shell programming (Korn, Bourne, C, etc.). Or they use the scripting language Tcl for both programming their GUIs and gluing together their C++ classes and libraries. Another option is to use Python as the glue. It's often preinstalled with UNIX systems and is easy to extend with C.
The most prevalent object-based scripting language is Visual Basic, which is often ...
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