It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

Microsoft has created four independent, yet highly integrated components that make up a well-rounded set of scripting technologies. These include the Windows Scripting Host (WSH), Visual Basic ...

It is easy to dismiss scripting languages, but they are perfect for some applications. ChaiScript and similar tools let you build the hard parts the hard way and the easy parts the easy way.

JVM scripting language No. 5: Jython — Python for the JVM Jython, or what was originally JPython, was one of the first scripting languages to be released for the JVM.