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 ...

The scripting language uses function calls and supports object-oriented elements. It can be used outside of the Web, for example, in PDF documents.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Even if it’s not exactly 71 times slower, Python is without question a total snail even among scripting languages, where it trades blows with Perl, PHP and Ruby at the bottom of every ranking.

Python is an interpreted programming language (also called a scripting language), created in 1990 by Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum, following his experience working on the education-focused ...

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