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> Of these, the web browser scripting language (JavaScript) is the fastest, most popular, and the only one with an industrial standardization process.

Most popular, I can agree. Fastest, & only one with industrial standardization process? Have they met Erlang?

edit: you have to be kidding me, downvoted to oblivion for an honest observation. Sorry I hurt javascript's feelings.

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Erlang is compiled to bytecode, right? So is it considered a scripting language?

It "feels" like a scripting language and is run in a runtime shell environment. But I would concede to your point, as well.

I don't understand the connection being made between having a bytecode compiler and being a scripting language.

Java is definitely not a scripting language

Is JavaScript? Python? Ruby? All major implementations of all three are bytecode compilers/VMs.

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