Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

PHP is easy to learn and use, yet has all the constructs of modern programming languages. Included are C-style loops, math functions, string manipulation, regular expressions, file I/O, encryption ...

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 ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

Netscape pioneer Marc Andreessen says the scripting language is better, simpler, and has a brighter future than Java.

Programming languages have been around for more than 30 years in the computer industry. They're what help developers and engineers create all the applications and websites we interact with daily.

Zend, headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel, announced PHP 5, the biggest upgrade to the language since its development in 1997, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and vice president of Zend.

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development -- no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...