scripting

What makes a "scripting" language one is that it has the ability to DO scripting and that it's used in that manner. Basic, when you get right down to brass tacks is a scripting language. Forth is. C is. C++ is.

ITT programming vs. scripting.

I was considering this the other day, and came up with this:

A scripting language can dynamically generate and execute source code in its own language using only features built into the language, such as an eval() function.

Since you can't compile something that uses eval() without including the ``compiler'' or interpreter itself, it's a scripting language.