Although scripting languages are hardly new, today’s powerful computers make them viable platforms, says Joshua McAdams, a representative for the Perl Foundation.

When Robert Martin talks, programmers listen. XP! Patterns! UML! Java! C++! OOD! SE! For most of the last 30 years, Martin has worked full time at the center of modern programming practice. His ...

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.

One way to make programming languages more accessible to non-technical stakeholders is to use domain-specific languages (DSLs). DSLs are languages that are tailored to a specific problem domain ...

Scripting languages are often distinguished from “system programming” languages like C. Computer scientist John Ousterhout (himself a creator of a popular scripting language, TCL) made the categories ...

Prominent scripting languages, once viewed as the future of programming by offering ease of use, have slipped in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. Only Python and JavaScript still ...

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 ...

CIO.com – Scripting languages have been around pretty much since operating systems were built to stay resident — back to DOS JCL, and no I don’t mean that DOS. I mean the Disk Operating ...