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Appearance of scripting languages more frequently than new compiled languages:
Scripting languages are those languages which supports writing scripts. Scripts are programs written for automating execution of some tasks which could be completed step by step by human operator.
Scripting languages are more compared to compiling languages in modern times due to their advantages over compiling languages. The main advantages are as follows:
- It is easier to write the code in a scripting language than in a compiled language.
- Scripting languages have high- level statements than complied language.
- So, it is easy to complete tasks for which scripts were designed.
- Moreover, scripting languages are more powerful.
- Example Perl has lot of tools for easy manipulation of text files
- A compiled language requires a write, compile, deploy and run cycle...
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