Introduction to Scripting ICS 215 Ed Meyer What is a scripting language? A scripting language is a programming language.

Scripting is the action of writing scripts using a scripting language, distinguishing neatly between programs, which are written in conventional programming language such as C,C++,java, and scripts, …

Scripting languages are designed for “gluing” applications; they use typeless approaches to achieve a higher level of programming and more rapid application development than system programming lan …

cat “$task”.txt >> file done tr '\n' ' ' < file returns: Scripting in bash makes many many things much easier, like putting this sentence together.

combines a sequence of commands—that would otherwise have to be typed into a keyboard one at a time—into a single script. Most shells have their own scripting language, each with its own variables, …

Scripting languages originally tools for quick hacks, rapid prototyping, gluing together other programs, ... evolved into mainstream programming tools characteristics text strings as basic (or only) data type …

Course Goals Short-term: Survey of the most popular scripting languages Understand general PL concepts in the context of scripting