Marcoil has an interesting take on what differentiates a "scripting" language from a "dynamic" one:

Scripting languages read whole programs from outside the compiler and execute them immediately, usually with a minimal amount of processing.

Dynamic languages include the compiler in their own environment, and programming is seen as adding or modifying that environment.

That's kind of a nice breakdown between the two, I think.

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