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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
script [skript]
(computer science)
An executable list of commands written in a programming language.
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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