Right now, I'm working off one of Microsoft's infamous giant press releases. The company has a tendency to do brain dumps in press release form, so we both have to sift through the release to give you ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, while we’ve covered several in depth, those five dynamic languages are not the only ones developers use. Since every programming language is a tool suited to solve a particular problem, it ...

For Hackaday readers who might not spend their free time spinning electronic beats at raves, the Launchpad by Novation is a popular peripheral for creating digital music with tools such as Ableton ...

“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 ...