Q564 Why is JavaScript not a progamming language but a scripting language and what is a scripting language?

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Q564 Why is JavaScript not a progamming language but a scripting language and what is a scripting language?

JavaScript isn't a scripting language, its a programming language.

The only things that JavaScript cannot do are:

• access the client machines file system
• Open connections to the net

But this is also true of other programming languages - VBScript for instance.

Generally scripts of JavaScript are written to interact with the browser, window, forms, etc. However it is possible to write programs in JavaScript.