What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front? Several well-known Microsoft engineers, plus programming-language gurus from other companies, are convening on the company ...

With highly expressive syntax that is easy to read, write, and maintain, dynamic programming languages like Python and Ruby are extremely conducive to rapid development. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems ...

The Eclipse Foundation has announced three new project milestone releases that extend the open-source Eclipse framework to support AJAX and dynamic programming languages, such as Python, Ruby, and Tcl ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the ...

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, ...

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