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 Char Wu's previous JavaWorld article, " Build Your Own Scripting Language for Java" (April 2006), he designed and implemented a simple Boolean language called BoolScript and used it to ...

Scripting languages have a place anywhere that a systems programming language (e.g., implementing an operating system) is not required. Otherwise they fit basically anywhere, whether it be on the ...

Bash scripting is a type of programming language. "Scripting" is a list of commands and parameters that are to be executed ...

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 ...

Polyglot – a program in eight languages (COBOL, Pascal, Fortran, C, PostScript, Linux/Unix shell script, X86 machine language and Perl); Obfuscated Programming – 6 language Polyglot (C, Shell ...

Several up-and-coming scripting languages--some open-source--are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages, including Groovy, Scala, Lua, F#, Clojure and ...

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Picking a programming language to learn can be a stressful task. The trendy language at any given time isn’t necessarily one that anyone will care about in a year, much less the one that’ll ...