With highly expressive syntax that is easy to read, write, and maintain, dynamic programming languages like Python and Ruby are extremely conducive to rapid development. Microsoft and Sun ...

Panelists cite Java's shortcomings in the low-end Web front-end tier and also question the viability of the EJB object persistence technology.

Program corpus analysis is important in the optimization of runtime systems. Conventional linguistic analysis is static in nature and cannot reflect dynamic behaviors revealed by versatile ...

LAS VEGAS — Java faces encroachment from dynamic languages such as Ruby in the Web application tier, but Java can be improved and JVM functionality can be extended to dynamic languages, said ...