NLTK The Natural Language Toolkit, or NLTK for short, is among the best-known and most powerful of the Python natural language processing libraries.

AppleScript is the best-supported language, but it tends to infuriate programmers; fortunately, there are a third-party JavaScript component and modules for Python and Perl (look in CPAN under 'Mac').

Microsoft is developing a home-grown version of the popular Python scripting language that's called IronPython, which will run on the .Net framework.

The updated Python extension is available for download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace, where it's currently the most popular programming language by a long mile.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where the languages were headed ...