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The Year in Scripting Languages

Posted by michael on from the fun-for-the-whole-family dept.

Mitchell writes "People from several language communities came together to create a joint year-in-review for Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Tcl."

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  1. What about... by dildatron · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't believe all the biased articles on this place! I can't believe the would cover Perl, tcl, etc, and leave out the Windows Batch file scripting language! This is dispicable! It's so powerful, no wonder it's #1.

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  2. Silly Rabbit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    scripts are for kids!

    Script reviews and naked girls.

    Or try Pajonet.com

    1. Re:Silly Rabbit by bsharitt · · Score: 2, Funny

      WTF! I didn't see any naked girls on the site!

  3. Re:Next year... Invite PHP by Valiss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah but then you'd have to invite ASP, and really, who would want to do that? =]

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  4. /. frontpage story considered useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    OK, I've only skimmed it before hitting the sack and perl is the only scriptage that my paymasters allow at the moment, but I'll be checking the links on the others in due course. Nice to have a brief summary of things from the various communities all in one place.

    I especially liked this, from the Python section:

    The goals for Python 2.3 are modest compared to new-style classes. The alpha release on Dec. 31 introduced only minor language changes, like a new boolean type.
    Any language that glosses over introducing a new boolean type as a "minor" language change has got to be worth looking into....
  5. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    The scripts review YOU!

    Nice try, but as I understand the form, you need to avoid the article "the" or Smirnoff will never option your screenplay. For example:

    In Soviet Russia, article omits you!

    Moderators: I am not trying to encourage the form, other than trying to bring it to a bearable levels of authenticity.

  6. Who is winning?: Let the porn industry decide! by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 5, Funny
    We all know that the porn industry is always the first adopter of the latest and greatest technologies: And the winner is: PHP by a landslide!

    --naked

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    1. Re:Who is winning?: Let the porn industry decide! by puppetluva · · Score: 3, Funny

      Very scientific: Using your technology rating method, I've decided to use Windows, alt.sex and Brittany Spears for my next project.

  7. Programming down the toilet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why did they name a scripting language after a Hawaiian bathroom? The word, "lua" is Hawaiian for "bathroom." (Tourists who can't say luau (loo-ow) often talk about eating some great food in the lua (loo-ah)).

  8. Rexx has no equal. by Wargames · · Score: 3, Funny

    For scripting, there are not equals to Rexx the king of scripting languages.

    The programming language Rexx runs great as Regina on Linux/UNIX/NT, or Rexx under OS2 Warp or NT is cross platform with minimal changes.

    Rexx http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/rexx/
    Regina http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/

    Can your scripting language do this out of the box:

    -Wargames

    Powers of 2:

    say 2**100
    1267650600228229401496703205376

    say 2**150
    142724769270595988105828596944949513638274 6624

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  9. Re:I try to only use a few scripting languages by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    These are exiting times for Python programmers.

    Exiting to Ruby?

  10. Ruby can... by Colonel+Panic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can Rexx do:
    2**1000 :
    10715086071862673209484250490600018105614048117 055 33607443750388370351051124936122493198378815695858 12759467291755314682518714528569231404359845775746 98574803934567774824230985421074605062371141877954 18215304647498358194126739876755916554394607706291 45711964776865421676604298316526243868372056680693 76 ...but really, how does being able to do this mean that a scripting language 'has no equal'...

    Or when you say that 'Rexx has no equal' do you mean that you can't check for equality in Rexx? ...must be pretty tough...