Most Useful Scripting Language To Learn?

Visual Basic for Applications is the king of all scripting languages.

Love is wonderful. Marriage is grand. Divorce is twenty grand, but worth it. Support payments are ongoing....

Sounds like she just exchanged one nesting error for another.

#!/bin/bash
STR="Hello World!"
echo $STR

Javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- to hide script contents from old browsers
document.write("Hello World!")
// end hiding contents from old browsers -->
</script>

Lua:

#!/usr/bin/lua
print ("Hello World!")

Perl:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "[H1]Hello World[/H1]\n";

PHP:

<?php
Echo "Hello, World!";
?>

Python:

print "Hello, World!"

Ruby:

puts 'Hello world'

C++

#include <Something here>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
cout [[ "Hello World!";
return 0;
}

Why doesn't slashdot have a /code function? Replaced most Open,close tags with [ or ]. Oh geez, now my comment has too few characters per line. Here we are on a "Geeky" site and can't type out any code. Is Code now illeagal? Will the NSA,CIA, Google come after me now because I don;t have facebook and want to type code into slashdot. Grrr. So I guess that I will now type more meaningless stuff (looking...17.4 words average.) and I guess I will find out what the magic number is soon. Maybe it is 20. I know that spaces in the C++ code is very meaningful, not meaningless as slashcode seems to think. :( (Checking---20.7.. So 20 is not the magic number.) What will I need? Oh well, Will I need an average of 140 characters per line so I will be mini tweeting? Maybe I should go to the petition Government site and pressure sites like slashdot to not be so damn prohibitive. the only HTML code allowed here is [b], [i], [p], [br], [a], [ol], [ul] (Oh yeah, I can make an ordered or unordered list), [li], [dl], [dt], [dd], [em], [strong], [tt], [blockquote], [ecode], and [quote] Geez... Wait, what is ecode? Hmm... Will look into that. (Well, Now I can;t see what ecode looks like because I still can't get a preview. although I am up to 29.7 words per line average. You know, my dreams of getting a +5 informative comment is gone. This is gonna be modded as irrelevant, useless, and stupid. All I wanted to do was put out a few examples of 'Hello world' for the three clueless people on this site, and now I seem to have become the fourth clueless person. So I just went to Google to see if I could find how many characters per line I needed to make the stupid post. (I will make it - I am determined now. ) Oh look, there is a post with only 12 characters in the whole freaking post and what do I have? As of that question mark, I have an 37.6 and it isn;t good enough. Damn, slashdot, throw us people a bone and let us make meaningful posts. I was going to type, "Why can;t we type using code? Why can't I use more HTML? Why can't I...? But I know that there are a few trolls out there that would try to find malicious code, use [blink] tags (Wouldn;t that be fun - Welcome to Internet circa 1991,) or just do stupid stuff...(Checking my current characters...38.7 Geez. Maybe I need 40. Well damn, I ain;t stupid.OK maybe I am, but damn this is almost enough to make me mad. Almost. I still plan on doing what I was going to do today. It's my daughter's 18th and I wrote a small website commemorating it and announcing various gifts, added in a bunch of "dad" humor, threw in a few meme and pop culture references, etc. We are going to go car shopping afterward. But if I was really mad, I'd stay here until I got this post, I am not mad so I am going to continue doing today's planned activities. So I think I have made the point that I ain't mad, but I am frustrated. I don

I've seen a few things over the years calling themselves that. The one I actually used was "The Adventure Shell", by Doug Gwyn.

$ xyzzy
You are in a small dark directory. There are files here.
$ get foo
You put the foo in your backpack.
$ throw foo at lineprinter
The lineprinter eats your foo and belches.
$ get /etc/passwd
What? With your bare hands?