Although many Linux developers are only now discovering the combination of a scripting language and a graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, this sort of development environment is not new. The ...

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

Ron Simonson, a product engineer at Analog Devices' (www.analog.com) Design Center in Beaverton, OR, often had to make the same types of measurements for different tests. Rather than spend time with ...

At some point in your career as an administrator, it's a good bet that you've used a script to automate some common task. To assist with such tasks, Cisco added the Tool Command Language (TCL) with ...

CIO.com – Scripting languages have been around pretty much since operating systems were built to stay resident — back to DOS JCL, and no I don’t mean that DOS. I mean the Disk Operating System for the ...

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...