Conclusion

Scripting languages have their own special place in the world of programming languages. Derived from a cross between command languages and languages influenced by the Lisp language, they have gradually integrated their own characteristics and invaded application domains that have opened up since the mid-1990s. Thanks to the power and diversity of machines (computers, tablets, telephones), they often enable the development of portable applications based on high-level libraries. Traditional programming languages remain the tools of choice for the development of performance-demanding applications, but in the near future these languages may each have their own scripting language, like Groovy for Java?

Numerous resources are available to help you get to grips with the major scripting languages, from books to web pages. Both can vary in quality. In [Doc. H 3 118v2], we...