"Scripting language" has two apparently different, but in fact similar meanings. In a traditional sense, scripting languages are designed to automate frequently used tasks that usually involve calling or passing commands to external programs. Many complex application programs provide built-in languages that let users automate tasks. Those that are interpretive are often called scripting languages. Recently, many applications have built-in traditional scripting languages, such as Perl or Visual Basic, but there are quite a few native scripting languages still in use. Many scripting languages are compiled to bytecode and then this (usually) platform-independent bytecode is run through a virtual machine (compare to Java virtual machine).
- AppleScript
- AWK
- BeanShell
- Bash
- Ch (Embeddable C/C++ interpreter)
- CLIST
- ColdFusion
- ECMAScript
- ActionScript
- ECMAScript for XML
- JavaScript (first named Mocha, then LiveScript)
- JScript
- CMS EXEC
- EXEC 2
- F-Script
- Falcon
- Game Maker Language (GML)
- ICI
- Io
- JASS
- Groovy
- Join Java
- Julia (still, compiled on the fly to machine code)
- Lasso
- Lua
- MAXScript
- MEL
- Oriel
- Perl
- PHP (intended for Web servers)
- Pikt
- Python
- R
- REBOL
- RED
- REXX
- Revolution
- Ruby
- Smalltalk
- S-Lang
- sed
- Tea
- Tcl
- TorqueScript
- VBScript
- WebDNA, dedicated to database-driven websites
- Windows PowerShell (Microsoft .NET-based CLI)
- Winbatch
Many shell command languages such as the Unix shell or DCL on VMS have powerful scripting abilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_by_type#Scripting_languages
