Tcl (Tool Command Language) and its GUI sidekick Tk (Toolkit) have been available in one form or another for more than a decade. John Ousterhout originally designed Tcl as a freely available embedded ...

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 ...

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 ...