What is the difference between Scripting Languages and Programming Languages?

Question

There are some great Programming languages - Java, C++, C# etc. But In my knowledge there is only one Scripting language which is JavaScript. Whats the difference in these languages?

Answer 1

Ok, and is there only one scripting language? js

Answer 2

Useful link:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17253545/scripting-language-vs-programming-language
script languages list:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scripting_languages

Answer 3

Ok. can we use scripting languages for the same purpose as we use progrmng lnguags?

Answer 4

Thanks @Haris for the links...

Answer 5

Think of scripting language as a jpg on your disk while progtamming language as an exe on disk. Now what happens when you click exe, it loads directly in memory and has direct access to system resources. While when a jpg is clicked it is always opened in a client window (picture viewer) and jpg only has access to those system resources that are allowed through client window. Similarly a scripting languages like js always need a client (one client is browser) and has access to system resources allowed by browser.
In case of programming language, operating system is directly reading the language while in case of scripting language a client is reading (interpreting) the language and then presenting it to operating system.

Answer 6

Which means for web applications we can use JS. that is why people use it with html.

Answer 7

Now I understand the whole story.

Answer 8

Well said @Michael other wise computer languages seems similar to one another.

Answer 9

@Pravin Pandey
Happy to help. ☺

Answer 10

simple difference is that programming language are first compiled while scripting doesn't

Answer 11

Script languages are more limited in comparison to full programming languages.

Answer 12

Generally speaking, programming languages are compiled, scripting languages are interpreted.

A simple example :
Your internet browser is a compiled program that is designed to interpret HTML, CSS and JavaScript and output a visible webpage.

Answer 13

@pravin did you check my Platinum code?

Answer 14

What would R be?

Answer 15

Full programming languages have a wider range of applications than scripting languages. Another difference is that Scripting languages are used to provide programming capabilities to other languages such as html

Answer 16

@Sylvia Holcer R is a scripting language for data analysis and reporting, its pretty much similar to MatLab in my opinion.