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A scripting language can give your Java programs power they wouldn't ordinarily have. Utilities such as IBM's Bean Scripting Framework make hooking Tcl, Python, Perl, and other scripting languages ...

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 ...

A lot of people find scripting languages very productive and we’ve seen quite a few chips now supporting what you normally think of as a scripting language.

There are plenty of embedded scripting libraries and they provide some way for your code to access script resources and for script resources to access selected host variables and functions.

It is these languages, and languages of their kind, that will be mainstream industrial languages in the coming years. Why do I think this? Because these languages are much easier to refactor.

It used to be that software developers used scripting languages like Python, Perl and Ruby for prototyping, fully expecting to re-write their applications into a "real" language (such as C++ or ...

Apple says future versions of macOS won’t include a number of open-source scripting languages. The impact of this change will vary depending on the audience, but it will affect more people than you ...

Like the scripting language Perl, Tcl has turned out to be a great fit for IP and networking protocol work. Tcl is different from Perl, though, in that programmers can embed it within existing C++ ...