Is Python really a scripting language?

[Terry Reedy]

"Ron Provost" <ron.longo at cox.net> wrote in message 
news:009101c83c55$4ee07a00$6501a8c0 at aristotle...
But here's my problem, most of my coworkers, when they see my apps and 
learn that they are written in Python ask questions like, "Why would you 
write that in a scripting language?"  Whenever I hear a comment like that I 
can feel myself boiling inside.
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I don't blame you.  Python is an full-fledged algorithm/programming 
language that was designed to *also* be used a scripting language.