ScriptingLanguagesParadigms

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There are three main features which form the notion of ScriptingLanguages:

• StringIsEverything? which means both the program and the data are represented as text; this naturally requires rich string manipulation features;
• Easy handling of OS-related operations, e.g. File IO (including networking, sockets, fifos, filesystem editing and so on), execution, program IO redirection, building pipelines and so on;
• Possibility to execute an orbitrary text (which may be composed at runtime) as a part of the program (EvalFeature)