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 ...

"My old way of working [on a script] was irrelevant," Sian Heder writes of crafting "CODA," a film about a Deaf family. "I was writing for a language that only existed visually." (Christina House / ...

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 ...

If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your ...

Prominent scripting languages, once viewed as the future of programming by offering ease of use, have slipped in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. Only Python and JavaScript still have ...

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 ...