Introduction
What is a scripting language?
- High level (basic units are big).
- Most programs are short (extensions, glue).
- Dynamic (interpreted).
What is a unversal scripting language?
- Single language for many purposes.
- Embeddable and extensible.
Benefits:
- Easy to learn and use (5-10x faster than C?).
- Power: more things programmable, applications work together.
- Active objects: replace data with scripts.