Ah, that's because scripting languages ain't what they used to be.

Time was doing any tasks required running a lot of operating system commands one after the other.

If (for example) you wanted to set a new user up there was a standard set of commands you'd run to do that, every time. You followed this sequence of commands to the letter, and you'd successfully set your user up. So the command sequence is "scripted".

The first scripts were just a way of running each step of your task without actually needing to remember the commands or the order to run them.

Time passed and extra facilitles (conditionals, loops, input) were added to make the whole process more useful.

I view a scripting language as one where the real work is still done by operating system commands - Unix shell scripts and DOS batch files are good examples.

KiXtart falls between - much of what used to be DOS commands is now emulated within KiXtart itself, and many of the features it provides go well beyond a scripting language.

I guess JavaScript and VBS are called scripting languages more as a marketing ploy than anything else.