The differences between scripting languages and programming languages might be more subtle than expected. A scripting language employs an interpreter to guide software actions derived from source code ...

Explains its Web site, Clojure is “designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust ...

The Web scripting capability of Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, specifies what a script engine must implement so that code written in the script language can run ...