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When would using a scripting language within a larger program be useful?
I have heard of several situations of people using say, JavaScript or Python (or something), inside a program written in C#. When would using a language like JavaScript to do something in a C# program ...
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What is the main difference between Scripting Languages and Programming Languages? [closed]
Say difference between Python and C++?
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Is programming in Python faster than in C, C++ or Java?
There's a widespread belief among programmers that the more dynamic and loosely typed the language, the more productive the programmer will be in it. Guido van Rossum wrote about programming ...
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What Impact Do Scripting Languages Have on Junior Programmers?
I had a discussion with one of my teachers the other day.
We debated the impact that simpler scripting languages (like Python or Ruby) have on junior programmers.
He argued that scripting ...
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When does a “scripter” become a “programmer”?
Is there a difference between 'scripters' and 'programmers'? What is the dividing line between scripters and programmers?
Perhaps all scripters be considered to be a programmer. If not all ...
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Why is $ in identifier names for so many languages?
A lot of scripting languages like Perl, Awk, Bash, PHP, etc. use a $ sign before identifier names. I've tried to look up why but never had a satisfactory answer.
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Question about Creating a Scripting Language
Say, for example, I wanted to pay somebody to create a programming language or scripting language for me. What type of document would they need, in order to fully understand what it is exactly that I ...
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What is a good way to familiarize myself with PHP, coming from an ASP.NET background?
Currently, I'm very comfortable with building tools/web apps in an ASP.NET environment. I'm not really looking to leave tbh, as I really like C#, ASP.NET, MVC 3, Visual Studio, etc.
However, right ...
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Would a statically typed alternative to JavaScript on webpages be practical?
Preference for dynamic and static typing is largely a matter of taste, and different people find them more or less suitable in different situations.
My question is, would it be technically possible ...
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Migration strategies for deprecating in-house scripting language
We have a scripting language that we use internally for many things. It began as a simple evaluation statements for dynamic labels to become a Turing complete language used pervasively throughout our ...
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Where should I define constants in scripts?
When writing scripts using a modern scripting language, e.g. Powershell or JavaScript, where should I define constants? Should I make all constants global for readability and ease of use, or does it ...
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Should extension scripts be run in a sandbox?
In particular, this is about game extensions written in lua (luajit-2.0). I was contemplating whether I should restrict what these scripts can do, and arrived at the conclusion that I probably ...
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Why Python and not Lua?
Why has Python been backed by google and become so rapidly popular and Lua has not?
Do you know why Lua has stayed in background?
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Building a DSL: Scripted atop a general-purpose language or stand-alone?
I'm debating designing a domain specific language to simplify a given, obscure programming model. Part of the debate is whether to build it (as a script) atop an existing language/runtime (e.g. Java) ...
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Understand scripting language
Quoted from Wikipedia:
A scripting language, script language
or extension language is a programming
language that allows control of one
or more applications and makes the
compiler of the ...
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Help understanding server-side scripting
As far as I understand, there are basically 3 options for doing server-side scripting these days:
Using scripting languages that can be directly interpreted/executed by the web server (e.g., PHP and ...
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Can I use Ruby to automate everything?
I face various types of applications (web-based, GUI-based, command-line, etc.) on various platforms (Windows, Linux, etc.) to operate everyday. There is a great opportunity for me to automate tasks ...
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Is it a good idea to write an OS in a scripting language? [closed]
Is it a good idea to create an OS that's written in a scripting language?
For example, how about creating an OS using Python?
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Should a .NET, JavaScript and SQL Web App developer learn Perl?
I'm a front and backend .NET web developer (most solutions use MS SQL Server) and I won't be using any non-MS solutions for a while.
Will Perl be useful for situations that require scripting in an MS ...
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PHP as a scripting language
I have reasonable knowledge of PHP, Perl, and Bash. I use Perl for most text processing on my system (find, replace, filter output, etc). I use PHP for web development, allowing a user to view and ...
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Can JavaScript be used as a general scripting language?
I've used JavaScript and some frameworks (jQuery, Prototype, some node.js) for client-side web programming, but never on the desktop, where I do most of my scripting work in either Python or Bash.
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Alternative Scripting Language to Lua?
I would like to add scripting support to an applications and with plenty scripting languages available I am a bit overwhelmed.
At first I thought about Python but I guess Python is a little too big ...
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What does (Lua) game scripting mean?
I've read that Lua is often used for embedded scripting and in particular game for scripting. I find it hard to picture how it is used exactly.
Can you describe why and for which features and for ...
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What software models are appropriate for daily builds and continuous integration?
On reading the joel test and about daily builds, a discussion with a few tech-lead friends of mine in various companies revealed that they never did daily builds or continuous integration because ...
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What makes Python more used as an implementation language than the others?
Perl and Python are often compared to each other (let's not forget Ruby), and almost always those discussions will come to the conclusion pretty much anything you can do in one or the other.
Without ...
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When are scripts inside HTML not considered a bad practice?
I am new to web development. While studying the Play framework and JSP, I noticed that they both give an option to place script (in jsp scriptlet) inside HTML, but in both books I am reading they both ...
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Scripting language for filling out web form
I have a job as an intern at a technology company, I was given the unfortunate job of performing some data entry into our web management system. The information entered into the web form is stored in ...
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What's better right now: IronRuby or IronPython? [closed]
I have plenty of experience with both Ruby and Python, and I'm looking to embed either one of these on a C# application I'm developing. I don't really care which, but I'd like to know which one ...
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What is a good script language for writing server administration tasks? [closed]
I am administering hundreds of RHEL servers. There are many daily tasks to perform. Right now I am working with bash scripting and python. I was wondering if other languages such as Erlang, Lua, Ruby, ...
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Storing One-liners [closed]
As programmers, we all have a slew of complex shell/vim/emacs commands that we use over and over again. What's the most efficient way of storing and retrieving these one-liners, so as not to ...
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Can Powershell do anything that Iron Ruby can't?
I am torn between learning myself some Powershell or just leveraging my existing Ruby knowledge for the various Windows scripting things that I do from time to time.
Powershell does look incredibly ...
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Scripting custom drawing in Delphi application with IF/THEN/ELSE statements?
I'm building a Delphi application which displays a blueprint of a building, including doors, windows, wiring, lighting, outlets, switches, etc. I have implemented a very lightweight script of my own ...
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What are my choices for server side sandboxed scripting?
I'm building a public website where users share data and scripts to run over some data. The scripts are run serverside in some sort of sandbox without other interaction this cycle:
my Perl program ...
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I need to know the reasons why learning Linux Shell Scripting (BASH) benefits me as a PHP developer
I have been developing web sites/applications using the LAMP stack for almost 5 years.
Currently I am interested to dig more into Linux OS, specifically BASH but from a web developer perspective, not ...
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Is it possible to call an ASPX from UNIX shell script
I want to call an ASPX page from a UNIX script running on a separate server from the ASP Web Server and send the ASPX page information in the URL. Is this possible? If so, what is the script command ...
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Learning a scripting language [closed]
I believe every programmer must learn about a core programming language and a scripting language. Seriously I've no hand in any languages like Python, JavaScript, JScript, CScript etc. I'm native ...
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Is bash “finished”? [closed]
Should bash be expected to change in ways that break non-trivial amounts of existing scripts at some point in the (near/<5y) future? How much change has it gone trough in the last ten years ...
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In a 4 hour Powershell 101 class should I skip for/while/do and just teach ForEach-Object
I'm making a syllabus to teach non-programmer co-workers PowerShell. The first non-pilot group I will run the course with will be a team that deploys and configures one of our software products. They ...
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Automated deployment/installation of development tools [closed]
My team is looking to automate installation/deployment of all of our development tools.
The main driver for this is to ensure that everyone in the team has a consistent development environment setup ...
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Scriptable user-interfaces/frameworks for automated UI testing
I'm planning on using scripting for automated UI testing. Main application is written in c#, and I want it to be scriptable, so I can do everything end-user can do, but programmatically.
What do you ...
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REST efficiency on count and sum methods
For example, if I have a Customer Transactions Table and I create a REST for it. The fields are: date, description, and total_amount.
I am trying to figure out which one is much more efficient when ...
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What defines a language as a scripting language? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the main difference between Scripting Languages and Programming Languages?
I'd like to know what defines a language as a scripting language compared against ...
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Is a partially familiar scripting language desirable?
Given that a program (under development) needs a scripting language, and that for various reasons it's not possible to use an off-the-shelf one as is, I'm considering basing it on the syntax and some ...
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Do some interpreted languages only load the scripts once?
The benefit of a compiled application was that all the libraries and classes are loaded one time and sit waiting for input right?
I come from a background working with PHP and the resources/classes ...
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C library build system dependencies
This debate has cropped up on a mailing list for a project I'm involved in. Unfortunately we're quite a small bunch at the moment, so I want to ask a wider audience.
We're writing a C library (for ...
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Is there any Windows installer maker with decent scripting capabilities? [closed]
I need to do complex dependency processing during the installation of our solution, install a few related programs from their own installers and also probably run a few simple tests to determine ...
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Good game that has scripting support [closed]
I've volunteered to lead a programming club at my son's middle-school. We've covered a lot of fun topics, including showing them how to use a game engine to build 3D interactive environments. One ...
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How to make support for bindings for a scripting language
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I'm making a scripting language using C++. I plan to use it with a simple test game editor. But I have to make a support for bindings to call game engine's nodes' methods to update positions, ...
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How did Python become popular as a scripting language? [closed]
I looked at it in my field of work, which is film and pretty much every software we use comes with python as a scripting language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software That made me ...
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What scripting languages can be embedded within HTML?
Most of scripting languages (like Pythong, Perl, etc) generates the whole HTMLfile. However, PHP code can be embedded within html codes. PHP will process only code between <?php ?> tags and ...
