For some reason, I’m often asked this question: is scripting programming or just systems administration? Oddly enough, we ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform.

However, like any other tool, dynamic languages are not necessarily interchangeable. Each has its place in a programmer’s toolkit. We asked a group of luminaries in the scripting world for their ...

However, like any other tool, dynamic languages are not necessarily interchangeable. Each has its place in a programmer’s tool kit. We asked a group of luminaries in the scripting world for their ...

Scripting is now considered real programming, and indeed most people don’t even use the word “scripting” when describing what they do, but instead call it “programming.” These days, it boils down to ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software ...