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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do. Of Perl, Python and Ruby, only one was built from the ground up to combine scripting with object-oriented programming.

Microsoft's PowerShell open-sourced scripting language is striking a chord with more developers.

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JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java.

Researchers often find themselves coding algorithms in one programming language, only to have to rewrite them in a faster one. An up-and-coming language could be the answer.