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Leopard Guides: Open Source
Mac OS X provides support for a number of scripting languages, including Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, and various shell script dialects. Additional scripting languages are available from various open source groups.
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Shell Scripting Primer (HTML) (PDF)
A guided tour of (Bourne) shell scripting, including control structures, numerical computation, regular expressions, subroutines, and error handling.
 2009-04-08
System Startup Programming Topics (HTML) (PDF)
Explains the boot process used to initialize the Mac OS X operating system.
 2008-11-19
WebKit DOM Programming Topics (HTML) (PDF)
Describes how to use JavaScript in web content and WebKit-based applications.
 2008-10-15