| Scripting Language (2886 words) |
 | Language interpreter can be embedded within another application, allowing users to automate application operation, to provide customized handling of application events, or to define new application functions using the scripting language. |
| Still later, REXX came along, providing a "scripting language" with syntax resembling that of PL/I that had a rich enough set of control structures and data structures that it could be used itself for many of the things that would traditionally require a "systems programming language". |
| The underlying force remains, which is that there is a market for both languages which focus on a low overhead for the programmer on small programs (scripting languages), and for languages which focus on scalability to larger programs and teams (system languages). |
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