Dear Final Debug: I’m not a tech person, but I have to deal with tech people every day in my job, so I have to understand what they’re talking about. In a meeting recently, they were all talking about ...

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

Tcl (Tool Command Language) and its GUI sidekick Tk (Toolkit) have been available in one form or another for more than a decade. John Ousterhout originally designed Tcl as a freely available embedded ...

Some Java applications’ requirements make integration with a scripting language necessary. For example, your users may need to write scripts that drive the application, extend it, or contain loops and ...

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 ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...