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.

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.

No Language, Just Wires In 1946, the ENIAC was programmed by plugging wires from one socket to another. That led to the plugboards on tabulating machines and later to programming languages.

Still, scripting languages weren’t used in two areas of programming: systems programming and commercial, installable, “shrink-wrapped” products. Now those barriers have been broken as well.

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.

Best programming languages for coders compared, including Swift, Python, Java, C and Perl. Coding has never been more popular, and learning to program in Mac OS X is a great skill to get.