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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. Next year... Invite PHP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It does have a large market share, ya know.

  2. Missing by The+Bungi · · Score: 4, Interesting
    No mention of ActiveState's plugins for Perl and Python to Visual Studio.NET?

    Not really ports to the platform itself, but great productivity boosters regardless. I've used VisualPython with VS.NET 1.0 and it rocks.

  3. Python to become dominate cross platform language by bsharitt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I hope Python integrates wxPython. With Python + wxPython, it can take on things like Java, Mono, and .Net.

  4. Re:TCL????? by pogle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I originally learned Tcl/Tk about 4 years ago, but stopped using it once my job no longer required it. I took a joke course on scripting languages last fall, and the professor was in love with Tcl/Tk, but seeing as how no one cared, we learned Perl/Tk instead. The Tk widgets are the more useful part of it...Tcl was OK, but it frankly shocked me that it was still being developed actively. Anyone used the new version and can vouch for the speed boost? It was so gawd awful slow before that I couldn't bear it.

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  5. or awk by DrSkwid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    awk essential for pipe work.

    you'll see it here used like
    wget -O - http://domain/info.html | awk -f proc.awk | mysql -u news newsdb

    rc shell and it's unix implmentation

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