Edoardo Saccenti, who specializes in systems-data analysis and applied statistics at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, has a good command of multiple programming languages.

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

A non-procedural programming language that requires less coding than lower-level languages. Command-line languages that come with operating systems and database management systems (DBMSs) are ...

PowerShell and bash have programming languages that are, although both very good at what they do, based on totally disparate philosophies. An example that perhaps best underlines this difference is ...