Back when I started writing code, everything was done in the command line. You configured systems with the command line, wrote scripts in vi and emacs and ed, building your own library of commands ...

The hoc interpreter was created by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike and published in their 1984 book The UNIX Programming Environment. Their hoc project demonstrated the strategy of starting first with a ...

Computer understands the language of 0's and 1's called binary language. In early days of computing, instruction are provided using binary language, which is difficult for all of us, to read and write ...

Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again ...