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Everything about Scripting language
Programming language for automation scripts
In computing, a script is a relatively short and simple set of instructions that typically automate an otherwise manual process. The act of writing a script is called scripting. A scripting language or script language is a programming language that is used for scripting. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Scripting languageA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: User-Customizable Transpilation of Scripting LanguagesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Дядя ВаняThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The complex language of chromatin regulation during transcriptionCited 2,422 times
- Go sideways: Windows Script HostA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Shell scriptA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A computer language designed to be used as part of a larger application.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The complex language of chromatin regulation during transcription
RosettaScripts: A Scripting Language Interface to the Rosetta Macromolecular Modeling Suite
Swift: A language for distributed parallel scripting
POET: a scripting language for applying parameterized source‐to‐source program transformations
BigDataScript: a scripting language for data pipelines
TSTL: the template scripting testing language
Controlling a Robotic Marine Environmental Sampler with the Ruby Scripting Language
An embedded domain-specific language for type-safe server-side web scripting
🆕 Influential since 2022
User-Customizable Transpilation of Scripting Languages
Seismotectonics of Shallow-Focus Earthquakes in Venezuela with Links to Gravity Anomalies and Geologic Heterogeneity Mapped by a GMT Scripting Language
Hybrid Detection Framework Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks
GameScript: a simplified scripting language for video game development
Optical CAD modelling and designing of compound die using the python scripting language
📚 Books worth reading
Дядя ВаняАнтон Павлович Чехов · 1897
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]William Shakespeare · 1730
The Miracle WorkerWilliam Gibson · 1956
Head First PythonPaul Barry · 2010
Python in a NutshellAlex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft · 2002
JavaScript for dummiesEmily A. Vander Veer · 1996
Scripting with objectsAvinash C. Kak · 2008
Die alttürkischen Inschriften der MongoleiWilhelm Radloff, Vasilʹev, V. · 1894
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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