scripting language

Racket is a programming language. Racket is the language implementation formerly known as PLT Scheme.

Racket is available now. To quote the release announcement:

Free Software Magazine: "Who would have ever guessed that Javascript, a simple scripting language initially thought as a simple means to make web pages “cooler”, would become… drum roll... the world’s new CPU?"

Zend Technologies, creator and commercial maintainer of the PHP dynamic scripting language, Wednesday kicked off its ZendCon conference by releasing the first public beta of its Zend Server 5.0 Web-app server.

On PHPBuilder.com today Scott Clark has posted a review of the Aptana IDE (that supports not only PHP but others like Javascript, CSS, Javascript, etc).

Just one week shy of Christmas 2008, the Python world saw the release of version 3 of Python.

Big deal, eh? Well ... it turns out it was and is, as Python 3 is the first major release of Python designed from the get-go to be incompatible with prior versions of the language.

Python is well liked among the Linux Journal readership (winning the Favorite Scripting Language category in 2008), and such a development may come as a shock to some.

SWIG makes it easy to write an extension for your favorite scripting language (or languages). Learn how it works.

For the fourth year in a row, the once-obscure-now-ubiquitous dynamic scripting language, PHP, takes center stage this week (Sept. 15 to 18) at the annual Zend/PHP conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

Before you reach for that scripting language, make sure you're making the most of the shell utilities that you have at your fingertips!

At the Geek Ranch we recently made a decision to implement some software in Python. Or, more accurately, I decided and there was no disagreement.

Then Python gets picked as the best scripting language in the LJ Readers' Choice survey. That inspired me to write this article (and get ready for Perl and Ruby fans to start yelling at me).

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