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 Perl language, which dates back to the 1980s, has hit an all-time low in the Tiobe language popularity index this month ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform.

Linux, known for its robustness and flexibility, has been a favorite among developers, system administrators, and technology ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise ...