MacroLanguage

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Macro Languages are used to write extentions to TextEditors

Popular Macro languages include:

AwkLanguage
EmacsLisp
LuaLanguage
PerlLanguage
PythonLanguage
RexxLanguage
TclTk
TpuLanguage

I remember reading once that somebody was going to create a language called CLike because of the number of other languages that claimed to be CLike but nothing like C.

On Windows, there is the option of using WindowsScriptingHost to allow choice of MacroLanguage. In Java, you can use the BeanScriptingFramework from IBM.

What makes a GoodMacroLanguage??

Dynamic rather than static typing
full set of control structures
good string handling
complete access into editor's internals
ability to traverse pointers from object to object
ability to iterate objects easily

MacroLanguage usage:

GnuEmacs, Brief : Lisp

SlickEdit, MultiEdit, Epsilon, VEDIT : CLike

XEDIT, KEDIT, THE : REXX

TPU, LSE : TPU

VIM : Perl, Python, Ruby, TCL

Freemacs : MINT (Mint Is Not TRAC)

SciTE : lua