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

Programming languages are generally defined as a more human-friendly way to program computers than using raw machine code.

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 ...

Nor are scripting languages any longer merely the tool used for quick-and-dirty patching (someone once called Perl the duct tape of the Internet, and it stuck so well that Perl lovers wear the label ...