Although bash scripts are regularly maligned, they do have a certain simplicity and ease of creation that makes them hard to resist. But sometimes you really need to do some heavy lifting in another ...

Perl, Python, and Ruby modules can ease development for large projects, but Bash is simpler and better for many tasks Last week I talked a bit about how best to protect against the vagaries of human ...

The interpreter is the program that runs in the background and that allows your computer to understand Python. Think of it a little bit like a language pack! The IDE is the “integrated development ...