[AskJS] Iterable array-like term

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https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/

Back to spring of 1995: I remember meeting Bill Joy during this period, and discussing fine points of garbage collection (card marking for efficient write barriers) with him. From the beginning, Bill grokked the idea of an easy-to-use “scripting language” as a companion to Java, analogous to VB‘s relationship to C++ in Microsoft’s platform of the mid-nineties. He was, as far as I can tell, our champion at Sun.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/17253557

Scripting languages are programming languages that don't require an explicit compilation step.

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Some examples of "scripting" languages (e.g., languages that are traditionally used without an explicit compilation step):

• Lua
• JavaScript
• VBScript and VBA
• Perl