Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do. Of Perl, Python and Ruby, only one was built from the ground up to combine scripting with object-oriented programming.

Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month.

Of note is that Kid allows Python to be used as the templating language (as opposed to Django's practice of providing a Python-like templating language). A nice feature of the tutorial is the fact ...

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 the languages were headed ...

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Hot scripting language: JavaScript Few scripting languages are as polarizing as JavaScript. But love it or hate it, it’s hard to debate the fact that JavaScript has had a renaissance of late ...

Mac OS X provides rich scripting and automation tools that can simplify everyday tasks—if you know how to use them. The roster includes the venerable command line, the graphical Automator ...