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 ...

It is these languages, and languages of their kind, that will be mainstream industrial languages in the coming years. Why do I think this? Because these languages are much easier to refactor.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Mac equivalent of WSH is OSA, the Open Scripting Architecture. AppleScript is the best-supported language, but it tends to infuriate programmers; fortunately, there are a third-party ...

Tech Tech Industry Microsoft embraces open-source scripting language Company unveils first beta of IronPython, a .Net implementation of Python, in hopes of luring programmers to Windows.

The update features ConceptDraw Basic, a built-in scripting language that enables developers to create customized visualization solutions based on the ConceptDraw drawing engine.