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 ...

Prominent scripting languages, once viewed as the future of programming by offering ease of use, have slipped in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. Only Python and JavaScript still ...

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 ...

“Most scripting languages, such as Bash, don’t give you a way to figure out what the script is going to do. Everything is buried inside the code,” said Christos Dimoulas, a Harvard graduate ...

Notice how all of the LaTeX markup is gone, replaced by a simpler markup language that will be used to produce slides programmatically. Assuming the LaTeX chunk was in a file called chapter3.tex, the ...

Not-hot scripting language: Perl This former giant laid the foundation of some of the best sites on the Web — one of several accomplishments that earned Perl its worthy comparison to duct tape.