** Summary **


** Disambiguation **

In relation to programming languages, script refers to the non-compiled
interpreted portion of a program.

** See Also **

   [cmdSplit]:   

** Description **

In [Tcl], a script is a collection of 0 or more Tcl commands separated by
semicolon or newline.  Said commands can later be [source]d if stored in a
file, run from a command line invocation of a TCL interpreter, `[[[eval]]`'ed
from a variable, invoked as a part of a call-back, and possibly executed in
other ways
.

Not only that, but a script need not be ''in'' Tcl.  One could, for example,
dynamically generate scripts written in [Perl], [ksh], [awk], or any other
scripting language.

Why might you do that?  Well, most languages have unique features or functions
available which make doing certain things easy.  In some cases, using something
built in or distributed in one language is quicker than ''reinventing the
wheel'' in another language.


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