Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by ...

Over the past year, blockchain engineers Andrew Poelstra, Pieter Wuille and Sanket Kanjalkar set out to improve this. By stripping down Script to its bare essentials, their “new” programming language ...

Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about how awful it is to program shell scripts. While we like the ubiquity and efficiency, we can’t disagree… ...

You can take any language you fancy and wrap it with a layer that conforms to the contract laid out in JSR 223. The language can be object-oriented, functional, or in any other programming paradigm.

Indeed, programming technology powerhouses Microsoft and Sun both cite their own accommodations for these languages: Sun has opened up the Java Virtual Machine to support scripting languages, and ...

It’s with that in mind that computer scientist Ramsey Nasser has built قلب (pronounced “Alb,” lit. “heart”), a fully-functional programming language based on Arabic script.

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 ...

As the programming language approaches its 10th anniversary, Hejlsberg recalls how Microsoft viewed anything open source with trepidation. "It'll be 10 years come Christmas time," he tells ZDNet.