A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

Some Java applications’ requirements make integration with a scripting language necessary. For example, your users may need to write scripts that drive the application, extend it, or contain loops and ...

I was thinking about writing a REALLY simple script to count out the number of characters in a text file, to any given point in the file (how much of the text is in the first x# of characters, etc). I ...

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon” in ...

Even software that has been built with secure development procedures may still be vulnerable to attack, due to flaws in the interpreted programming languages they depend on. IOActive researcher ...

A programming language that requires an interpreter in the target computer for program execution. Contrast with native executable. See interpreter. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

The Perl programming language was first posted to the comp.sources.misc Usenet newsgroup by its creator Larry Wall on December 18, 1987. Now known as a family of high-level, general-purpose, ...

“BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source interpreter with object scripting language features, written in Java…You can use BeanShell interactively for Java experimentation and debugging or ...