The Scripting Language
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Scripting languages descend from shell scripting — stringing together commands to perform tasks on an operating system's interface — interpreted at runtime rather than compiled, with batch files as the early vehicle.
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A nightly backup file of strung-together commands is the ancestral form, still working.
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Interpreted-at-runtime is the family's defining trait here.
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