Questions tagged [scripting]
In computer programming, a script is a program or sequence of instructions that is interpreted or carried out by another program rather than by the computer processor (like a compiled program is).
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How to manage working directory in interactive development environments like Jupyter Notebook?
I'm having trouble with managing the working directory in Jupyter Notebook. For example, I have a .py script that requires me to change the working directory to its directory to run it properly. I've ...
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Quality Assurance for Large SQL Script Releases
I'm often releasing large SQL scripts for projects and minor works - my problem is that there's nothing (except the logs) to indicate that the release was successful. There could be an object missing, ...
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How to bind C/C++ functions for my language [closed]
I'm making an interpreter (currently in python but later I'll remake it in C++) and I wondered how I could use a C/C++ function in my language so when somebody wants to write an extension for my ...
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Are mature dependencies less risky than state of the art ones?
There are tools like dependabot or greenkeeper for npm and others for other languages. Now at first glance they improve security by keeping open source dependencies up-to-date. But I am wondering, do ...
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Using sed/awk to bulk generate static HTML pages off of a template
Hypothetically, consider a social photo platform - each pic gets its own url, this page contains the image, text about the image, buttons for the user to click, related pics, and some user-specific ...
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Moderator/Administrator Script for website (HTML) [closed]
G´Day, So I am making this website out of basic HTML. I wanted to add a Moderator/Administrator script for it and was wondering if there was any way I could Create a script myself easily. (Keep in ...
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What are the best practices to design a "verbose" mode in command line scripts?
To improve my command lines scripts, I want to add some optional console output, mainly for logging purposes. In my PowerShell modules, I use Write-Verbose for this (but it should be clear this isn't ...
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Understanding C after getting used to scripting languages
I use python and javascript in my daily workflow. I am really excited about understanding c as I am drawn towards contributing to projects that are written in the language but even after weeks of ...
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Automate clearing everything (database tables, log files, etc.) and starting from a fresh state during development?
The Issue When I'm fixing a bug during web development projects, I often find myself cleaning out the existing (tainted) database records, clearing out log files, etc. I do this so that I can start ...
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Do you recommend having a template scripts?
I am pretty much new to programming, but recently I began to learn C# intensively for Visual C# and for Unity. I have noticed that I use many scripts that have absolutely the same content in different ...
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How to Maintain Rarely Used Scripts
I come across the need to do a lot of one time scripts (related to API evaluations, data extraction, experiments etc.) that have the potential only to be used very rarely in the future. These could be ...
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C# - Generic Configurable Condition checker at Runtime - Achievement System
I'm writing a "generic" achievement system for my MMORPG project, it needs to be friendly & efficient for my game designers (without having to write code to add new achievements). If anyone got ...
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What makes a scripting language "embeddable"?
According to my experience, Wikipedia and prior answers, a scripting language is vague category of languages which are high-level (no manual memory management) and interpreted. Popular examples are ...
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Designing multi-user system to allow running updates
I am at the beginning of designing a system to be deployed across a job site, your boring, dime-a-dozen, database server backend multi-client system. One feature that I am very keen to implement in ...
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Versioning an Application VS Versioning an Executable/Library
I'm trying to pass a point to my team whereas there are two different kind of "programs" we can serve : applications and executables/librairies. An application in this sense is dependent on other ...
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