This version of 25-year old PHP introduces an improved type system, a new JIT compiler in the PHP engine and some features borrowed from Python and JavaScript, such as named arguments and null ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

Google's investment in improving Python performance will make the language even more compelling for rapid web application development. Further reading. Jesse Noller: Pycon: Unladen-Swallow; ...