When Apple announces major new versions of macOS, the company often includes details not just about the next release but also about what will come further in the future. The first macOS 10.15 Beta ...

BEA Systems--a company long committed to the Java programming language--plans to support alternative scripting languages in upcoming products. As part of its long-term plans, BEA is considering ways ...

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I recently returned from JavaOne 2005 in San Francisco. The show was impressive for a number of reasons. The attendance seemed to be about 30% larger than last year's. The same could be said for the ...

“BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java…You can use BeanShell interactively for Java experimentation and debugging or ...

Scripting languages have been around pretty much since operating systems were built to stay resident-back to DOS JCL, and no I don’t mean that DOS. I mean the Disk Operating System for the IBM 360. OS ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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 ...

I use vb-script. I know... everyone hates it.<P>With the pending release of the .NET servers, and needing to learn XML, and still working with basically ASP2.0 features for the most part, I figure now ...

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. Since it was opened, the topic has become the ...

My brother wants me to help his ~9yo son get into programming. After having struggled to teach my bro how to program in Objective-C over the last year so he can write iPhone apps, I'm thinking maybe ...