Although all the scripting languages are similar, they do have differences in aesthetics and feel, says David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby-based Ruby on Rails Web framework.

The upcoming Java Standard Edition 6.0 release will include an implementation of Java Specification Request 223, Scripting for the Java Platform. This JSR is about programming languages and their ...

The scripting language uses function calls and supports object-oriented elements. It can be used outside of the Web, for example, in PDF documents.

Still, scripting languages weren’t used in two areas of programming: systems programming and commercial, installable, “shrink-wrapped” products. Now those barriers have been broken as well.

It allows coders to develop web pages and applications using a variety of specific programming and scripting languages – such as SQL for querying databases or HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for ...