A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

In particular, PHP was (and still is) a scripting language. Great for developer productivity, not so great for resource efficiency. So in 2008, Facebook began work on HipHop for PHP, a transpiler.

A script is a series of commands written in a scripting language that can be executed (carried out) one line at a time. At this level you are expected to use client side scripting - scripts that ...