Python is the best and most popular general purpose scripting language; the universal scripting language

[Jonathan Daugherty]

# So which is Lisp? Prolog? Smalltalk? ML?

I didn't claim that it necessarily holds for every language. :)

# A scripting language is a language that makes scripting (gluing together 
# components) easy.

You're defining it in terms of itself; what is scripting?  The use of
scripting languages, or the accomplishment of tasks quickly and
easily?  Some would argue the latter can be done with programming
languages.

# A programming language is a language that makes programming (including 
# the creation of components) easy.

By this metric many languages are both, since the definition is
subjective.

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