> Using the term "scripting language" to describe things like Python and Ruby fell out of favour quite a few years ago.

Which is unfortunate, because now we dance through phrases like "things like Python and Ruby". There is a hard-to-precisely-define category here, and it's useful to have a name for it--even if the name is flawed.

And, in my opinion, it's usually better to hang on to an old name as it becomes less and less literally true than to continually fish about for a new name. ("Dynamic language" is popular now, but what happens when someone popularizes such a language with static typing?) As an analogy, consider "touchdown" in American football. You haven't had to touch the ball down to score in my lifetime, or even in my parents lifetimes, but we still call it a "touchdown" and not a "planebreaker".