The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

However, like any other tool, dynamic languages are not necessarily interchangeable. Each has its place in a programmer’s toolkit. We asked a group of luminaries in the scripting world for their ...

Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process): ...