[Axel Lijencrantz] wants to change your shell to be a full-blow programming language called Crush. On the face of it, it looks like a shell. Want to see the contents of the current directory?

A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter, of an operating system. It is often considered a simple domain-specific programming language. Typical operations ...

This year, Shell managed to overtake C as the eighth most popular programming language among developers. #7: C++ C++, pronounced C-plus-plus, is a descendent of C. It's original name, C with ...

[Adam McDaniel] has an obvious fondness for this fifty-year-old language and has used it in several projects, including their own shell, Dune. Dune is a shell designed for powerful scripting.

Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again SHell (Bash) was developed by the Free Software ...

Johnson on , Luca Cardelli on , Walter Bright , Simon Peyton-Jones on and more recently, Larry Wall, creator of the programming language. On this occasion we speak to Steve Bourne, creator of the ...

No one who isn't lazy writes scripts. Scripts save valuable system administrator time. In this article, I introduce the Sleep scripting language, which is a Perl-inspired language built on the Java ...

Linux usage of PowerShell is the key reason Microsoft's programming language for the first time this March reached 45 in Tiobe's programming-language popularity index. However, Windows usage ...