Is Python really a scripting language?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Doug Morse a écrit :

<ot>top-post corrected</ot>

>>>> But here's my problem,
>>>> most of my coworkers, when they see my apps and learn that they are
>>>> written in Python ask questions like, "Why would you write that in a
>>>> scripting language?"  Whenever I hear a comment like that I can feel
>>>> myself boiling inside.
> although perhaps not a part of the definition of scripting languages per se,

I still wait to see any clear, unambiguous definition of "scripting 
language". Which one are you refering to here ?

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