Script

In (Japanese) design this word was once used to mean a style of handwritten Western (alphabet) block letters. Otherwise&sbquo it was mainly used to refer to script for films and TV or radio programs. These uses were derived from the Latin word scriptum&sbquo which meant "something written." With the appearance of the computer and the subsequent development of commuter language the word came into general use as a computer term. First&sbquo a simple program that converted given lines info machine language was created in order to facilitate dialogue with the computer circuit structural. Something that automated the process and made it easy to perform was called the "script." One aim in the historical development of computer terminology at the beginning of the 1990s&sbquo when hypermedia had become possible&sbquo was the composition of programs that let users use vernacular terms instead of Hyper Talk or other programming languages&sbquo in order to realize multimedia such as images&sbquo sound and text. Accordingly&sbquo the adoption of the word was itself significant. Simple programs for using various functions that cannot be expressed with HTML on the web are sometimes called scripts. Languages (script languages) for writing a script include Perl&sbquo VBSScript and JavaScript. In design&sbquo the development of design description languages is needed in order to utilize the computer as a tool for expression in a new manner. We have entered an era that requires the development of design script in order to process as technology for expression using the computer the very modeling process of the design language.

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