It began as the encyclopedia anyone can edit. And now it's also the encyclopedia anyone can program. "We wanted to provide editors with a real programming language," says Rob Lanphier, the director of ...

The What Else: Widely-used in the AV and IT industries among major control system manufacturers, Lua scripting is a universal language that enables products from third-party vendors to communicate and ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...

Programmable instruments, which allow creating and storing on-board programs for on-demand execution, have been available in some form for many years. Hardware and programming language improvements ...

ActiveState, creator of many enterprise-grade software language tools and the Komodo family of IDEs, has added support for four major new languages. In addition to editions for Python, Perl, and Tcl, ...