Compared There are literally hundreds of programming languages available for developers to write programs to solve problems in specific areas. Languages at the level of the Shells and TCL, for example, are fully interpreted high-level languages.
Scripting languages are also highly portable.
This tradeoff may well be reasonable if the run time of such a program is reasonably short and you use the program infrequently. In the intermediate ground come languages like Perl, that share many characteristics in common with Java. Perl's ongoing evolution has led to the adoption of object-oriented features, security features, and it exhibits many features in common with Java, such as robustness, dynamic behavior, architecture neutrality, and so on. The high performance comes at a cost, however. Drawbacks include the high cost of debugging unreliable memory management systems and the use of multithreading capabilities that are difficult to implement and use.