Six experts weigh in about where and how scripting languages, from JavaScript to PHP, Ruby and Python, fit into the development world.

More stories on PHP Scripting languages have been used to build millions of applications on the Web, but in general have not been adopted widely by corporate developers.

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 ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

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 the languages were headed ...

Scripting initiative would capitalize on languages widely used in Web applications and considered easier to use than Java.

What Is Website Development? Web development is the process of creating and maintaining websites using technologies like HTML, PHP, and JavaScript, as well as with content management systems (CMS).

Oracle deal shows that PHP and other scripting languages--once considered toys by serious programmers--are going corporate.

Scripting initiative would capitalize on languages widely used in Web applications and considered easier to use than Java.