Since every programming language is a tool suited to solve a particular problem, it behooves each IT shop to use the best tool for the job. So in this article, I share a few up-and-coming scripting ...

It began as the encyclopedia anyone can edit. And now it's also the encyclopedia anyone can program. "We wanted to provide editors with a real programming language," says Rob Lanphier, the director of ...

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Some precursor languages such as Unix shells, Perl, or PHP ...

The What Else: Widely-used in the AV and IT industries among major control system manufacturers, Lua scripting is a universal language that enables products from third-party vendors to communicate and ...

ActiveState, creator of many enterprise-grade software language tools and the Komodo family of IDEs, has added support for four major new languages. In addition to editions for Python, Perl, and Tcl, ...