Is Python really a scripting language?

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On Dec 12, 4:34 am, "Terry Reedy" <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> "Ron Provost" <ron.lo... 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.
> ===================
>
> I don't blame you.  Python is an full-fledged algorithm/programming
> language that was designed to *also* be used a scripting language.

It depends on your definition of scripting language, I guess.

Python it byte-compiled and run in an interpreter. Much like how Java
is run, only the compilation of python scripts is usually hidden from
the user.

You could argue that python is no more of a scripting language then
Java.