What is scripting language?

Scripting language are those which are subversion of the main languages such as VB script, Java script.

These language need to web browser to run, they are not stand alone application so they run by using any other application.

Scripting language can be classified into two types:-

1. Client side scripting:- Client side scripting means it will be execute client side machine itself. The example of client side is HTML(HTML is used to display the content in web browser where as XML used to store data ).
2. Server side scripting:- Server side scripting means it will be execute on server then it will send response back to the client machine.