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Okay, something finally snapped and it's time to give up Perl and learn a better scripting language. The two that I have under consideration are Ruby and Python although other suggestions are ...

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.

Top coders have near limitless prospects when it comes to employment, or even opportunities to succeed in their own startups. In fact, learning to code is fast becoming a necessary life skill, with ...

Like the fan bases of sports teams, the communities that follow competing technologies can get in each other’s faces. The same is often true of competing programming languages and frameworks, like ...

A new project initiated by IBM to create a toolkit for language runtimes is about to go open source, and it could be used to speed up the performance of existing runtimes for many languages. The OMR ...

Despite a gap between the supply of available JavaScript talent and enterprise demand for such skills, student developers are more interested in learning Ruby and Python. However, younger coders do ...