Automating Administrative Tasks
Charles S. Edge, William Smith · Apress eBooks · 2015
One of the greatest strengths of OS X is the abundance of scripting languages supported out of the box. Many of these languages are interpreted by a host program rather than run directly as lower-level machine code, and thus they are text files with human-readable syntax. Because such languages are translated into machine code at run time, interpreted programs are sometimes much slower than their compiled equivalents. However, because you can edit these programs and then run them immediately, they are common tools used by system administrators to automate tasks. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.