In May, Sun announced the availability of JavaFX Script, a highly expressive language for developing portable rich interactive media applications. JavaFX script has some nice syntactic features like ...

For most Groovy scripts I use, I simply run the script from its Groovy source code as-is and allow the compilation to take place implicitly. However, it can be helpful at times to use groovyc to ...

As Python’s popularity rises, its limitations are becoming more clear. For one thing, it can be very hard to write a Python application and distribute it to people who don’t have Python installed. The ...

It certainly isn’t a new idea to compile a language into an intermediate language. The original C++ compiler outputs C code, for example. Enhanced versions of Fortran were often just conversions of ...