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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted from InfoWorld. For more IT news, subscribe to the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for ...

The Tiobe index author isn't convinced these are long-term gains, though, pointing out earlier high rankings that have since faltered Compared to their positions a year ago, Ruby, Assembly, Python, ...

Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel processing ...

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 ...

Java is down a bit while Python continues to shine in this month’s Tiobe language index, which measures popularity based on language searches in search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and YouTube.

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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 ...

Here's a crazy good deal to take advantage of. Make 2019 the year you bring all your coding knowledge into alignment with the Learn to Code Bundle, paying any price you want. Java, Ruby, Python, ...

Getting it onto App Engine seems as good a reason as any to convert Ruby bytecode to Python. That's why why created Unholy, a compiler that tries to make the two popular languages interconvertible. No ...