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Java's really more of a full-on programming language. Though the distinction is sometimes fuzzy, scripting languages are often not compiled. Java *is* compiled, but to a "bytecode" that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.
PHP, Ruby, Python, etc are run bit by bit in something called an interpreter. This, largely, is what makes them scripting languages.
Scripting languages are also often at a higher level than programming languages. They have features that make it relatively easy to do things that would take many lines of code in a traditional programming languages.
PHP, Ruby, Python, etc are run bit by bit in something called an interpreter. This, largely, is what makes them scripting languages.
Scripting languages are also often at a higher level than programming languages. They have features that make it relatively easy to do things that would take many lines of code in a traditional programming languages.