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script

(1) A program written in a general-purpose programming language. Such languages are typically interpreted and less comprehensive than full-blown compiled languages. See scripting language and interpreter.

(2) A program written in a special-purpose language such as used in a communications program or word processor. Such languages are typically interpreted. See macro language, scripting language and interpreter.

(3) A typeface that looks like continuously flowing handwriting (not hand printing) or calligraphy.

script
1. written copy for the use of performers in films and plays
2. Law
a. an original or principal document
b. (esp in England) a will or codicil or the draft for one
3. Computing a series of instructions that is executed by a computer program
4. an answer paper in an examination
1.SCRIPT - An early system on the IBM 702.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
2.SCRIPT - A real-time language.

["A Communication Abstraction Mechanism and its Verification", N. Francez et al, Sci Comp Prog 6(1):35-88 (1986)].
3.(language)script - A program written in a scripting language, but see Ousterhout's dichotomy.


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So I, too, scratch the land with my brief endeavour and flash my name across a page of legal script ere I pass and the page grows musty.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
This nightmare occupied some ten pages of manu- script and wound up with a sermon so destructive of all hope to non-Presbyterians that it took the first prize.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
It was written in an almost unreadable script neither English nor German, and so arranged that if you were not careful you began with a toothpick and rice pudding and ended with soup and the day of the week.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
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