In Char Wu's previous JavaWorld article, " Build Your Own Scripting Language for Java" (April 2006), he designed and implemented a simple Boolean language called BoolScript and used it to ...

Using JavaScript, you can radically transform HTML documents, adding functionality to static web pages and even creating full-blown web applications. At its core, JavaScript can do anything that any ...

Every other programming language has to grapple with how HTML has redefined computing over the past 30-plus years. ... I still edit my own website this way, tidying it up so I can see every tag, ...

That solution was to create our own programming language: JetLang. How does it work? When car manufacturers build their vehicles, they don’t start from scratch each time.

That way, no matter what your first programming language, you can apply those skills towards learning a new one (maybe in as little as 21 minutes). Even kids' coding apps can be useful to start with.

Programming languages have been around for more than 30 years in the computer industry. They're what help developers and engineers create all the applications and websites we interact with daily.

Now, assuming you’ve started your own programming language, how does one decide what the language should be - what the available instructions are, what the rules and grammar of the language are ...

In the first article in this series focusing on the top 5 languages for systems admins, I wrote about not being too fond of programming. To recap, it’s not because I don’t see the value behind ...