scripting-languages

Would javascript and similar scripting languages benefit from being strongly typed?

Just had my mind going today. I spent some time in IE debug mode, browsing the web as usual, and oh boy do I see many errors :) Most of these errors are because some value are of a different type than expected (at least as far as I interpret the error messages). What are the reasons JavaScript and similar scripting languages aren't stro...

Programming language with native code support, No framework (I write the framework)

Hi. I'm looking for a programming language. It should be an easy language to learn, and should have a Garbage Collector. It should be a basic language with features like basic types (integer, boolean), arrays and etc, and I should write the framework. It is for a game editor I want to write. The editor's designer will write the code o...

Inspiration for easy-to-use, probably graphical, scripting language

I have to implement some scripting capabilities in our product. The scripting will typically be used for simple things such as: IF param1 > 5 + param3 AND current time > 18.00: SET param2 TO 3 ELSE SET param2 TO 4 Another very common task is to let a parameter vary over the day, preferably using some line diagram with setpoints th...

What scripting languages can be used with the HTML5 canvas element?

What scripting languages can be used with the HTML5 canvas element? This question may really come down to "what scripting languages are commonly supported by browsers?" Nearly all of the HTML5 canvas examples/tutorials use JavaScript. Some use processing, but even those fall back to Processing.js to do the rendering. Are there any go...

Parsing question

Hi All I am creating a scripting language to be used to create web pages, but don't know exactly where to begin. I have a file that looks like this: mylanguagename(main) { OnLoad(protected) { Display(img, text, link); } Canvas(public) { Image img: "Images\my_image.png"; ...

Best language for scripting large scale file management

The National Park Service's Natural Sounds Program collects multiple terabytes of data each year measuring soundscapes. In your opinion, what is best available scripting language to manage massive amounts of files and file types? We would like to easily design and run efficient user-friendly scripts to search for and retrieve/create co...

xcode scripting language

i notice that Java has a number of ancillary scripting languages. Clojure and Groovy for example. My understanding is that these can be used when the full might and power of Java does not need to be applied and a speedy cludge can be hacked in Groovy/Clojure. But at the end of the day the scripting tools contribution gets compiled into t...

Are algorithm benchmarks in PHP pointless?

As PHP is simpler for me I wished to benchmark algorithms in it for fun, and I chose to do factorials. The recursive function completely flunked in speed when I got up to 80! compared to the iterative method, and it gradually skyrocketed upwards while iterative had a steady line, actually it is something like this (x = factorial, y = se...