The result is that scripting languages occupy a greater and greater part of the programming landscape; the potential for high productivity overcame many objections. Still, scripting languages ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

If your software development experience comes from the old-style world of compiled languages, such as C++ or COBOL, you may be a little mystified by the new generations of scripting or dynamic ...

Scripting languages have been around pretty much since operating systems were built to stay resident-back to DOS JCL, and no I don't mean that DOS. I mean the . OS/360 JCL, Digital's various command ...

Learn what differentiates dynamic languages like Groovy, Jython, and JRuby from Java, then find out what happens under the hood when you start using scripting languages and techniques for faster ...

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 ...

So in this article, I share a few up-and-coming scripting languages that really ought to be on your company’s radar, with a few passionate arguments from developers who have adopted them.

Sun releases Java Standard Edition 6, a Java desktop update meant to work better with scripting languages.

HTML and XML are structural foundations of every website or application. It is crucial that developers learn — and master — both.