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 ...

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 ...