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 ...

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

The Web scripting capability of Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, specifies what a script engine must implement so that code written in the script language can run ...

However, like any other tool, dynamic languages are not necessarily interchangeable. Each has its place in a programmer’s toolkit. We asked a group of luminaries in the scripting world for their ...

In today's financial markets, the developers and programmers are the soldiers on the front lines executing the orders of traders, portfolio managers, CIOs and CEOs. In the ranks of IT, the language ...

BEA Systems--a company long committed to the Java programming language--plans to support alternative scripting languages in upcoming products. As part of its long-term plans, BEA is considering ways ...

Programming languages are like standards; the nice thing about them is that there are so many to choose from. Selecting the best programming languages for back-end, server-side applications often has ...

Most of us, by now, should have heard of the programming language known as JavaScript. It is quite popular and is mostly used to develop websites. If your web browser doesn’t support JavaScript or an ...