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 ...

In this article, we will equip BoolScript, a simple Boolean language I introduced in my previous JavaWorld article, “Build Your Own Scripting Language for Java,” with Web scripting.

Still, scripting languages weren’t used in two areas of programming: systems programming and commercial, installable, “shrink-wrapped” products. Now those barriers have been broken as well.

Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

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.

Several up-and-coming scripting languages--some open-source--are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages deserve more attention for your enterprise ...

Programming languages are generally defined as a more human-friendly way to program computers than using raw machine code. Within the realm of these languages there is a wide range of how close the… ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

Groovy, on the other hand, is new. It prompted me to look at Python-like scripting languages that run in a Java environment. In this article, I discuss Jython and Groovy, two scripting languages that ...