The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

The following is a guest post written by Jeff Hobbs (pictured), director of engineering for a company called ActiveState. ActiveState offers developer tools for writing, managing and distributing ...

Tcl, Perl, Ruby, Python, Lua, and so on are all essentially the same language from an only slightly-elevated perspective: they’re all succinct, procedural, more-or-less adequate at co-operation with ...

Pick the language with which you’re most comfortable. That’s our advice to reader John Wiersba, who asked us several weeks ago where he should concentrate his study. Wiersba’s question is a good one.

ActiveState, a company that sells programming tools for open-source languages such as Perl, Python, Tcl and PHP, has named two new board members: George Reznik, vice president of finance at Pivotal ...

While Perl and Python are two different programming languages, Python has the ability to execute Perl scripts through a built in function. Since Perl and Python are designed for different programming ...

Some Java applications’ requirements make integration with a scripting language necessary. For example, your users may need to write scripts that drive the application, extend it, or contain loops and ...