Python is the best and most popular general purpose scripting

[Paul Prescod]

PiedmontBiz wrote:

>...
> 
> I have the answer. Scripts are concatenated sequences of instructions to the
> computer operating system to perfom a certain task. The script I create for my
> own purposes and my own personal use (or my work group) will always be known as
> a script.
> If my script is needed and used by others (outside my workgroup), it will now
> be called an application. The source code of applications is not changed by the
> user.

So then the same language is both a scripting language and an 
application development language?

Remember that the goal is to classify _languages_, not programs.

  Paul Prescod