Okay, something finally snapped and it's time to give up Perl and learn a better scripting language. The two that I have under consideration are Ruby and Python although other suggestions are ...

The increasing popularity of dynamic languages has given rise to a growing arsenal of development tools tailored to developers using languages like Ruby, PHP, and Python. So widespread is the array of ...

Red Hat has put out a beta release of Software Collections 1.0, in a bid to let developers use newer versions of languages such as Ruby and Python with support. [ALSO: 10 cool Web apps using Ruby on ...

Top coders have near limitless prospects when it comes to employment, or even opportunities to succeed in their own startups. In fact, learning to code is fast becoming a necessary life skill, with ...

The horizon for functional programming is expanding with two languages in development, including Streem, from the founder of the Ruby language, and Mochi, which leverages Python. The brainchild of ...

A new project initiated by IBM to create a toolkit for language runtimes is about to go open source, and it could be used to speed up the performance of existing runtimes for many languages. The OMR ...

Like the fan bases of sports teams, the communities that follow competing technologies can get in each other’s faces. The same is often true of competing programming languages and frameworks, like ...