They have a few features of full programming languages. They store data in variables, and receive instructions, and can repeat when you loop correctly.
But it's a scripting language. Close, but not a programming language as Ahmir said. Is it similar to other scripting languages? Eh, they're kinda all unique in their own ways.
If you look at keyboard/mouse macro programs, like AutoIt, you'll see that it's rather similar in structure, but has its own instruction set and engine running in the background to interpret instruction lines.
If you know how to write scripts for DR's front ends, it's very similar to other scripting engines. A scripting engine really is just a set of instructions sent to an interpreting program that carries out the instructions. Microsoft's SYSPREP utility in conjunction with an answer file is another example of a scripting program used in a completely different way. The engine runs and takes answers from the answer file as it needs instead of the script file being a set of instructions.
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