Origin of Scripting Languages
Scripting languages originated as job control languages
- 1960s: IBM System 360 had the Job Control Language
- Scripts used to control other programs
- Launch compilation, execution
- Check return codes
Scripting languages got increasingly more powerful in the UNIX world
- Shell programming (which we've seen) was the start
- Also AWK, Tcl/Tk, Perl
- Scripts used to combine components
- Gluing applications [Ousterhout, 97 (see class web page)]