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In the world of programming languages, sometimes you don’t need the overhead and performance of Java, C#, C++ and other power tools. Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do. Of ...

Popular scripting language Ruby is branching out into embedded applications, with an Mruby version of the language. But the main Ruby variant is viewed by its founder as needing only minor ...

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 ...

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Can one man and a mantra of "radical simplicity" change the world of Web development? David Heinemeier Hansson, a 26-year-old Copenhagen native, has built a "framework" to help Web developers be more ...

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.

Chances are, you do some boring, repetitive data-related tasks at work — ones a computer could easily do, if only it was told how. “At one desk, a tester is entering test data into a database by hand.