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 have ...

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 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 ...

“BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java…You can use BeanShell interactively for Java experimentation and debugging or ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...