Indeed, programming technology powerhouses Microsoft and Sun both cite their own accommodations for these languages: Sun has opened up the Java Virtual Machine to support scripting languages, and ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 use the Java runtime environment.

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 ...

JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Dec. 4, 2020 at 5:20 a.m. PT ...