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Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually. -- Guido van Rossum
There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations. -- Guido van Rossum
I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality. -- Jacques Audiard
Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them. -- Natalie Jeremijenko
Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner. -- Matthew Perry
Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line. -- Jeffrey Brown
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives. -- Hari Kunzru
We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either. -- Guido van Rossum
There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional. -- Jay Sankey
I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea. -- Leinil Francis Yu
There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work. -- Larry Wall
C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things. -- Dennis Ritchie

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