AUTOIT: -->"aw-toe-it". -->'freeware automation language' for 'microsoft windows'. -->primarily intended to create automation scripts called "macros".

-->later enhancements in both prog. lang. design and overall functionality. AUTOIT 1 and 2 -->statement-driven(stimulating user interaction). from version 3 onwards Autoit syntax is similar to BASIC family of languages. -->3rd generation prog. lang. -->contains classical data model and a variant data type(that can store several types of data including arrays) -->can be converted into a compressed,stand alone executable.