What scripting languages are available?
Scripting languages are small languages that are usually much easier to learn than ordinary programming languages. Scripting languages are usually interpreted, rather than compiled, allowing rapid code development and testing at the possible expensive of somewhat slower runtime. Most of them have powerful features for string processing, and support associative arrays, which allow strings as indexes, providing a powerful text-to-text mapping capability. Most scripting languages have only two data types: strings and numbers. Type declarations are not required for program variables. Strings have unlimited lengths, and numbers are represented as floating-point values (usually the IEEE 754 64-bit binary format, although we have variants that provide 80-bit and 128-bit binary arithmetic, and 128-bit decimal arithmetic).
