Chapter 21: Scripting and Remote Access
- C. Scripting languages are interpreted languages that run on top of a runtime environment. Programming languages, not scripting languages, require a compiler. Scripting languages are not strongly typed; programming languages are strongly typed. Scripting languages have bad memory management because of loosely typed variables.
- A. Scripting languages are considered high-level languages because they do not directly access hardware and use an intermediary called the interpreter. Mid-level languages are Java and C/C++, not scripting languages. There is no such thing as an intermediate-level language. Low-level languages are machine language and assembly language, which are not scripting languages.
- C. Floating-point variables allow for precision math, also known as decimal math. Boolean variables allow for true or false values. Integer variables allow for whole numbers values. String variables allow for text values.
- C. A program variable...