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A scripting language or script language is a programming language that supports the writing of scripts, programs written for a software environment that automate the execution of tasks which could alternatively be executed one by one by a human operator.

A scripting language or script language is a programming language that supports the writing of scripts, programs written for a software environment that automate the execution of tasks which could alternatively be executed one by one by a human operator.

Scripts can be written and executed on the fly, without explicit compile and link steps; they are typically created or modified by the person executing them. A scripting language is usually interpreted from source code or bytecode. By contrast, the software environment the scripts are written for is typically written in a compiled language and distributed in machine code form; the user may not have access to its source code, let alone be able to modify it.

For more information see Wikipedia Entry about Scripting language

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Proposal for python syntax - what would go into implemention?

I would like to use certain keywords and unary/binary operators as functions. For example: _not = lambda a: not a _plus = lambda a, b: a + b _or = lambda a, b: a | b I think there is an opportunity for a simpler syntax, which would look nicer in…
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What scripting language(s) fits this description?

I like programming language design/implementation and I'd like to contribute to one of the less mature ones. I'm looking for a scripting language that is: Embeddable Dynamically, strongly typed Small & Lightweight (more elaborated…
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Use JavaScript as a scripting language in Ruby/Rails

I need to allow the users of my RoR (3) web application to customise parts of it with simple Javascript. This would involve allowing them to type in a single function which returns an object in JSON. The RoR app then has to run this Javascript…
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What prevented a WebAssembly-like system from being implemented and adopted on the web to begin with?

JavaScript was designed specifically for browsers. It wasn't pulled off the shelf. So what were the reasons behind making it a scripting language rather than a compiled language? With the introduction of WebAssembly, it's proof that compiled…
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script to read information from other sites

a friend of mine wrote a script, which read information from other sites e.g. number of followers 3 ppl had and displayed them on his website. I was interested in doing such things. I searched for scripting and found out there are many scripting…
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How to create a text script generation tool that can read test data from an excel file and convert it into a TCSL (similar to a C) format?

I want to create a test script generation (TCSL files) tool. It should be able to read test data from an excel file and convert it into a TCSL (similar to a C) format. Tool is expected to be developed in python.
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How to Implement callback for file downloading?

I wrote a script that downloads file from web using file URL. I have an ActiveXObject of following type. var objHTTP = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP"); objHTTP.open("GET", strFileURL, false); It works perfect for small size file says, file…
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Get only child LI when using "getElementsByTagName("li").length"

I am using below command to get the child LI nodes for the element ID 'treeview_sub' but it returns me the count of all the LI present recursively. var treeLILength =…
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Is there some quick magic trick to remove digital signature form field from pdf file just by editing PDF in text editor?

What I want is to edit PDF file, and remove digital signature form field. I would like to do that without buying Adobre Pro liscence. I remember some time ago I opened PDF file in text editor and saw some scripting language, so I am wondering if I…
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How to have a global variable that has been read from a list that has filenames in bash?

I have one txt file that has bunch of class names. I would like to read those class names line by line in bash script and assign that value to a variable to use it globally in another command in the script. FILES="files.txt" for f in $FILES do …
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Fixing DN from Canonical name and the Timestamp is always set at: 1/01/1601 11:00:00 AM?

I am trying to fix the PowerShell script below to list the member of AD security group called Domain Admins and export it to .CSV file. $ADGroupType = 'security' $ADGroupNamePattern = 'Domain Admins' $ResultFile = "C:\Result.csv" function…
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What are the similarities between scripting language and programming language?

By searching I have found a similarity that is both import libraries. But unable to point out any other similarities, as everywhere I can see only differences.
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Is it Possible through python or with any other language to archive the daily downloaded files into one folder

I need a utility to archive my daily downloaded files into one new folder. Suppose, I downloaded 10 files today and at the end of the day, all the files should get archived into one new folder with name Archived_TodaysDate. THIS ACTIVITY/TASK CAN BE…
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Update value of a global variable with a variable inside in bash

How can I update a variable which has inside a variable and keep it global? I know I can do this to update a variable but which isn't global: for i in {1..24}; do query=query_$i echo $query done I want to do something like…
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