BANGALORE, INDIA: Maybe you're writing a Java program, and you need to do a quick one-off script to clean up your database. Sure, you could write it in Java, but that can involve a lot of overhead for ...

In a not-so-surprising revelation, Sun plans to support the Python and Jython scripting languages in future releases of the open-source NetBeans IDE, which has been expanding beyond its Java origins ...

So, a couple of questions for the hive mind. I'm curious, what is the design argument for embedding a scripting language in an application?<BR><BR>I'm a developer, and I've used Perl and Python plenty ...