The State of Scripting Languages

Esther Schindler writes to tell us that Lynn Greiner has another look at the state of the scripting universe as a follow on to the same topic three years ago. Greiner talks to major players from each of the main scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby, and Javascript) to find out the current status and where they are headed in the future. "The biggest change since 2005 has been the growth of richer Web applications that perform more of their computations in the browser using JavaScript. The demand for these applications has forced developers to learn and use JavaScript much more than before. There's also been a lot of interest in Ruby, another dynamic language, spurred by the release and growth of Ruby on Rails. As a result of these changes, many developers are becoming more comfortable with dynamic languages."

Comments

Schindler's List?

[PunkOfLinux]

schindler's list looks neat. I'll go read it sometime.

Re:What about a Comparison Matrix

[Surt]

Language | Turing Complete?
PHP | yes
Perl | yes
Tcl | yes
Python | yes
Ruby | yes
Javascript | yes

Re:What about a Comparison Matrix

[El_Muerte_TDS]

Language | Has a "p" in it's name
PHP | yes
Perl | yes
Tcl | no
Python | yes
Ruby | no
Javascript | yes

Re:What about a Comparison Matrix

[serviscope_minor]

TCL is very strongly typed. Everythin is a string. That's a 100% unbreakable typesystem :-)