Editing Shell script (section)

==Other scripting languages==
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Many powerful scripting languages have been introduced for tasks that are too large or complex to be comfortably handled with ordinary shell scripts, but for which the advantages of a script are desirable and the development overhead of a full-blown, compiled programming language would be disadvantageous. The specifics of what separates scripting languages from [[high-level programming language]]s is a frequent source of debate, but, generally speaking, a scripting language is one which requires an interpreter.
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