Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development -- no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development -- no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

A handful of holes appear in different versions of a common open-source scripting language, PHP, and could allow attackers to crash an Apache Web site or compromise a server.

Developers are opting for safer languages, despite ease of use offered by scripting languages like Perl, PHP, and Ruby ...

The versatile scripting language also has support for various networking protocols and network management protocols such as Simple Network Management Protocol and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ...

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 they believed the languages ...

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and Sun Microsystems' director of Web technologies, hosted a lively post-Script Bowl panel discussion on the future of dynamic scripting languages at this year's JavaOne ...

Despite significant shortcomings, PHP is perhaps the most popular Web scripting language in the world. But despite a large collection of nails, not every tool is a hammer. So when should it be ...

Zend, headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel, announced PHP 5, the biggest upgrade to the language since its development in 1997, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and vice president of Zend.