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The State of the Scripting Universe

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-directing dept.

r.jimenezz writes "Via PragDave's blog I learned of an article by Lynn Greiner on the state of scripting languages, a.k.a. scripting dynamic languages. A number of influential personalities (Guido von Rossum, Damien Conway, PragDave himself and others) were interviewed and it's interesting to see how much their opinions coincide despite being interviewed separately. A lengthy but worthwhile reading."

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  1. Dun dun dun... by ciroknight · · Score: 4, Funny

    The research firm reports that over 41 percent of the 666 developers surveyed use Perl, 32 percent use PHP, and 15.6 percent use Python

    The Number of the Devil of Programmers.. looks like it's as I always said, scripting languages are evil..

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    1. Re:Dun dun dun... by FidelCatsro · · Score: 2, Funny

      You see the unholy trilogy of Perl Python and PHP == PPP which if you turn upside will give you bbb ,then add the satanic powers of non compilation and you get a twisting effect turning the bbb to 666 ... i need more sleep

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    2. Re:Dun dun dun... by ciroknight · · Score: 2, Funny

      Haha, and that was supposed to be a joke..

      Gosh I really need some sensitivity training or something.

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  2. MANLY scripting language? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 2, Funny
    So for example BASH programming is "scripting" since most of what you do is items that would normally be done at the command line.

    Yes, but BASH is a manly scripting language, where as...

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  3. Re:Another cool article about Tcl by the_womble · · Score: 1, Funny
    Look, TCL sucks because:
    1. Richard Stallman says its not a proper programming language
    2. It has a "peculiar syntax" (Stallman again) that makes it too easy to use
    3. It was not invented by GNU and , worse, it is not GPL (it has a BSD like license)
    4. It is not designed for huge applications therefore you should not use it at all
    5. The TCL community is not l33t enough and even help newbies sometimes
    6. Its too easy to get things like text munging and simple GUIs done. What the point if you get everything done in five minutes
    7. Did I mention Richard Stallman thinks it sucks?