Dear Final Debug: I’m not a tech person, but I have to deal with tech people every day in my job, so I have to understand what they’re talking about. In a meeting recently, they were all talking about ...

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 ...

Any viable company has to react quickly to gain or regain an edge over its competitors. For companies that rely on their Websites to generate revenue, this means frequent changes to those Websites.

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

This paper presents an instruction set simulator of an 8-bit, MCS-51 compatible CPU core, and shows how to use it in embedded software development process; Method to control and debug CPU using ...

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 ...

Editors exist for all kinds of scripting needs—some free, some cheap, and some not-so-cheap. Use this guide to help you find the right product for your work. Scripting in Windows has taken different ...

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 ...