python, a scripting language?

[Chris]

In article <abmnvi$jvd$1 at peabody.colorado.edu>,
 Fernando Perez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Erlend J. Leiknes wrote:
> 
> > A friend of mine which is a java programmer insists on that python is
> > scripting language...
> > 
> 
> Tell your friend that C is a scripting language too. Seriously, it has 
> system(), so you can use it to 'script' other programs.

And even when you don't use system() or sys.execute() or some such, any 
programming language is just "scripting" the compiler/assembler/linker.

If I write the following, I'm still telling something else what to tell 
the CPU to do.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   int i;
   for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
      printf("%2d : %s\n", i, argv[i]);
}

To be safe, call them all programming languages, because they are.