Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do. Of Perl, Python and Ruby, only one was built from the ground up to combine scripting with object-oriented programming.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where the languages were headed ...

Ditch Script Editor and AppleScript in favor of Ruby A quick look at using rb-appscript and Ruby instead of AppleScript for all of … ...