Scripting Languages
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Venue: Room 1301 -- Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo, ON ... (bottom floor, in the short hallway that connects the main building to the Chapel-Residence building).
Do you need to do the same thing again and again? Have you automated those repetitive tasks? What software tools do you use? Keyboard macros? Programmable keyboard macros? A scripting language? Which scripting language? What makes a scripting language different from a programming language? Is a scripting language Turing-complete? Can't you just do everything in PowerShell or Bash?
Let's talk about what can be solved with scripting languages, and what can't. Bring your laptop to give a demonstration of your favourite scripting languages, and maybe we can help solve some of your most annoying repetitive problems.