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 ...
Some Java applications’ requirements make integration with a scripting language necessary. For example, your users may need to write scripts that drive the application, extend it, or contain loops and ...
Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...
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 ...
(1) For the languages used in AI, see AI programming languages. (2) A language used to write computer instructions. A programming language lets the programmer express data processing in a symbolic ...