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Scripting Language City

Posted by timothy on from the which-portal-please dept.

Ursus Maximus writes "Scripting Language City is for folks who want to learn more about the future of this increasingly important subset of the programming universe. Scripting languages are not just for odd jobs anymore ;-))). Special attention is paid to four languages in Python City, Ruby City, Perl City, and JavaScript Expert Systems which includes a Scripting Language Chooser Program as well as a Basketball Expert Ssystem and a Football Expert System that are certainly something different from the usual same old mouse-over scripts usually found on JavaScript sites. There is also a web spider program that scrapes the web daily and provides updated lists of new web articles on scripting languages, with seperates outputs for each of the featured languages. as added bonuses, there is a page of essays and resources on open source and the free software movement called Farnham's Freehold and a page called The Linux Chronicles that follows the experiences of a Linux newbie with wit and humor. Not a slick professional web site, Scripting Language City is a work of love by a paramour of everything connected with scripting languages, open source, and the programming of free software."

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  1. what about VBA? by b_pretender · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I'll probably be modded down for saying this, but what about VBA? It is one of the most important scripting languages. I work in the finance world where Perl/Python/C++ on Unix are used for many things, but VBA is just as or more important because we all use Excel, and *the* scripting language for excel is VBA.

    I also know that other fields use VBA without knowing that the other scripting languages even exist. Having a scripting city without VBA is sort of like having San Fransisco without china town.

    Even if you are vehemently opposed to VBA for moral reasons, think about the benefit of having a VBA section of your website. When people search the web for VBA help, they come to your website, get the help that they need and learn that these other beautiful scripting languages exist that might provide benefits which VBA cannot.