Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0018-9162/09/$26.00 © 2009 IEEE existing codes. In parallel scripting, users apply parallel composition constructs to existing sequential or parallel programs. With such methods, programmers can quickly specify highly parallel applications that may, depending on problem scale, require for their execution a 16-core workstation, a 16,000-core cluster, or a 1...

Many web applications use a mixture of HTML and scripting language code as the front-end to business services. Analogously to traditional applications, redundant code is introduced by copy-and-paste practices. Code duplication is a pathological form of software reuse because of its effects on the maintenance of large software systems. This paper describes how a simple semi-automated approach ca...

While conducting a security analysis of JavaScript and VBScript, the most popular scripting languages on the Web, we found some serious aws. Motivated by this outcome, we propose steps towards a sound de nition and design of a security framework for scripting languages on the Web. We show that if such a security framework had been integrated into the respective scripting languages from the very...

Successful tools require extensibility by the end-user. This is true for database systems as well which has led to user defined types, procedures as attributes, or close coupling of the database system to an object-oriented language. Here, we extend an object-relational DBMS with a scripting ability where the scripting commands closely follow the interaction modes and have a direct visualizatio...

Jacl, Java Command Language, is a version of the Tcl [1] scripting language for the Java [2] environment. Jacl is designed to be a universal scripting language for Java: the Jacl interpreter is written completely in Java and can run on any Java Virtual Machine. Jacl can be used to create Web content or to control Java applications. This paper explains the need for Jacl as a scripting language f...

We give an overview of the scripting languages used in existing cryptocurrencies, and in particular we review in some detail the scripting languages of Bitcoin, Nxt and Ethereum, in the context of a high-level overview of Distributed Ledger Technology and cryptocurrencies. We survey different approaches, and give an overview of critiques of existing languages. We also cover technologies that mi...