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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."
serious question --- is perl 6 Open Source's answer to Vista? Some of the new features are added to perl 5, but is perl 6 is a wasted effort?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
No, I know what it means -- just neglected to catch the AC's intent. It's been a loooong week of having to second guess semi-literate types. I knew working with these idiots would corrode my brain, but they threw so much money a me!
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