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Scripting Languages
Python
Ruby
PHP
Pearl
Extension/embeddable languages
HeY - beos native scripting
Lua
Tcl
ECMAScript a.k.a. JavaScript, JScript
Shell script
Bash
Here is Advanced Bash Scripting Guide http://freshmeat.net/projects/advancedbashscriptingguide/ - most of it works on BeOS too (and i guess all would work with updated bash version :).
Text processing languages
Awk
Perl
Sed
XSLT
.NET
Portable.NET provides a set of tools to compile and execute applications for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), which is often referred to as ".NET". Portable.NET includes a C# compiler and runtime with core libraries. The Common Language Infrastructure allows the system a standard way of running any supported programming language including scripting languages and using and sharing code libraries without having to re-write them in each specific programming language.
Links:
Scripting - http://www.beosbible.com/bos/ch_scripting6.html
this link doesn't work; here's another [[http://web.archive.org/web/20030227220447/http://www.beosbible.com/bos/ch_scripting6.html]]
Here are a few more script pages:
Scripting the BeOS http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/08-scripting/
from BeNews [[http://web.archive.org/web/20010220161317/http://www.benews.com/story/2188.1.html]]
and the newer hey documentation will have some information, too, as some of the above links are a bit outdated (seems the hey functionality has increased since then, i.e. I think you can execute commands now with hey)