Before Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, (and its predecessor, the Bean Scripting Framework, or BSF), many languages were already communicating with Java. Some ...
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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 ...
B ash scripts are powerful, but with power comes great responsibility. It’s very easy for sloppy or poorly-planned code to do ...
In the past, you might very well have started programming in Basic. It wasn’t very powerful language and it was difficult to build big projects with, but it was simple to learn, easy to use, and the ...
If you didn't know it already, IBM Corp.'s billion dollar-plus acquisition of ETL specialist Ascential Software Corp. confirmed it: data integration is a big business. Consultancy META Group, for ...
A flaw in the common open-source scripting language PHP could allow attackers to crash or compromise a hefty fraction of the nine million servers running the open-source Web software Apache, as well ...
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 ...
For Hackaday readers who might not spend their free time spinning electronic beats at raves, the Launchpad by Novation is a popular peripheral for creating digital music with tools such as Ableton ...