The same credibility with programming hipsters, however, can scare away the bulk of programmers and limit a language to a niche. This isn’t fatal, but it can come close if the masses flock to ...

These dynamic programming languages, including Groovy, Scala, Lua, F#, Clojure and Boo, deserve more attention for your enterprise software development, even if your shop is dedicated to Java or .NET.

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 ...

I started to wonder if the increase in dynamic scripting language job postings is being driven by companies seeking enterprise developers with multiple programming language skills. For instance ...

Speaking of dynamic languages, Microsoft is hosting the development of a PHP compiler for the .Net Framework – codenamed “Phalanger” — on its CodePlex code repository site. Mary Jo ...