Linux Gazette: Programming in Dino

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 22, 1999

“Dino is a high-level, dynamic scripting language that has
been designed for simplicity, uniformity, and expressiveness.

Dino is similar to such well known scripting languages as Perl,
TCL, and Python. As most programmers know the C language, Dino
resembles C where possible.”

“Dino is an extensible, object oriented language that has
garbage collection. It supports parallelism description, exception
handling, and dynamic loading of libraries written on other
languages. Although Dino is a multiplatform language, its main
platform is Linux.”

“This document is a concise introduction to the new Dino
scripting language, but is not a programmer’s manual.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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