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Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. Since it was opened, the topic has become the ...

Prominent scripting languages, once viewed as the future of programming by offering ease of use, have slipped in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. Only Python and JavaScript still have ...

When it comes to Rapid Application Development, Python is the best choice because it offers dynamic binding and dynamic typing options. Most programmers will say Python is very simple to learn. This ...

For the first time in Tiobe's long-running index, 35-year-old Python has overtaken Java to become the second-most popular programming language. Python, a top choice for data-science and ...

Lua moves into top 20 of March’s TIOBE Index, Python retains top spot Your email has been sent The release of March’s TIOBE Index of the most popular programming languages saw a few notable changes ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

However, like any other tool, dynamic languages are not necessarily interchangeable. Each has its place in a programmer’s tool kit. We asked a group of luminaries in the scripting world for their ...

Python edges out C and Java to become the most popular programming language. Read now After almost 30 years of overseeing the development of the world's most popular language, Python, its founder and ...

What follows is a barometer of scripting languages — JavaScript, ActionScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scala, R, PHP, and Java — with our best-guess forecast of which languages are rising and falling in ...